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jmowreader Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-10-08 08:58 PM
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My answer to a really disgusting church sign
I was driving home today and saw this real winner of a church sign:

THE SCHOOLS DON'T NEED MORE MONEY THEY NEED GOD

Which is cool, of course; everyone knows that there just ain't enough Jesus in American culture.

Unfortunately, there's this little matter of the Constitution, which kinda frowns on non-tax-paying fundamentalist churches dictating the public schools' curriculum. So...the minute I see this church's corporate income tax return, I'd say we let 'em put anything they want in the curriculum.

Now, you simply must understand that We the People cannot possibly allow these churches to provide substandard religious indoctrination, right? Which is why, when I'm elected president, I will introduce the No Child of God Left Behind Act. We are going to make sure all churches preach the Word of God properly, so we're going to test each parishioner on an annual basis. If too many of the parishioners flunk, we have many options including extra study materials, a new preacher (hey, it's not MY fault if we accidentally slip up and send a Pastafarian minister to a Holy Roller church) additional study materials and vouchers to buy enough gas to take you to a better church. And if, by the year 2017, all of the parishioners in your church are not up to Faith Level, we'll strip your church of its accreditation and close it.

Will they bitch about the concept that the state shouldn't meddle in the affairs of the church? Of course they will, but that never stopped them from trying to meddle in the affairs of state.
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cynatnite Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-10-08 09:04 PM
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1. These people will never understand that seperation of church and state...
isn't there just to keep gawd out of school...

It's also there to make sure the govt. doesn't interfere in religious matters. The seperation is there to protect both religious institutions and the government.

These religious nuts have their heads so far up gawd's ass that they ignore the constitution.
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BOSSHOG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-10-08 09:06 PM
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2. I don't understand why so many "christians" send their children to public school
What could they possibly learn to help them achieve in life in a public school when all ya need to know is in the bible. And they can just pick and choose in the bible the parts they want to abide by.
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TomClash Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-10-08 09:09 PM
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3. Which schools? Islamic schools?
Which God? Allah? Abraham? Jesus?

Why?
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pleah Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-10-08 09:12 PM
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4. You would probably shut down 70% of the churches in the country.
Go for it! I think you may be on to something!
They would be spinning in their pews!
:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

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