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ellipses · Mod Joined: 29 Sep 2008 Posts: 9218 Location: WashPa!

Bus- LittleJ is a woman who used to live in the area... she works for FEMA or some other related organization

Free- Do you disagree with the sentiment in the poster? Should religion be flaunted in public and forced upon children?
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freethinker · Posted: Sat Jan 09, 2010 4:01 pm Post subject:

Elmo, I'm certain you're a good man, and you don't view the sexual molesting of children as a joke
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freethinker · Posted: Sat Jan 09, 2010 4:30 pm Post subject:

Awwwright... you and I are okay on the "molesting" part....

Now we need to discover the differences between "forcing" "brainwashing" and "guiding...or teaching "
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ellipses · Mod Joined: 29 Sep 2008 Posts: 9218 Location: WashPa!

How many people who "guide" their children in understanding Jesus and Yahweh also present them with proportionately equal information on Allah and Mohammed?

If you only guide them in one direction... what exactly IS the difference between that and brainwashing?

As Brant would be more apt to provide the quote... if children were allowed to grow to the age of reason before given religious "options"... you'd see a hell of a lot more atheists in the world.
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ellipses · Mod Joined: 29 Sep 2008 Posts: 9218 Location: WashPa!

But let's also not forget the other sentiment expressed in the joke... you don't waggle your willy in public... why swing your religion around in the open air? Smile

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freethinker · Posted: Sat Jan 09, 2010 6:43 pm Post subject:

If you consider guidance, that does not equally encompass and represent all spiritual philosophies, past present and future, such as Wiccan, Voodoo, and Hinduism, as being brainwashing instead of teaching, then I claim you are impractical and have never raised a child
with the attention span of a drosophilia...
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Kids need something to believe in, so you pick something and teach it..
And that thing must be bigger and better than you are.....

And I would never wiggle my ankh in your face
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busdriver · Journeyman Joined: 16 Mar 2009 Posts: 3497

[quote="freethinker"]If you consider guidance, that does not equally encompass and represent all spiritual philosophies, past present and future, such as Wiccan, Voodoo, and Hinduism, as being brainwashing instead of teaching, then I claim you are impractical and have never raised a child
with the attention span of a drosophilia...
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Kids need something to believe in, so you pick something and teach it..
And that thing must be bigger and better than you are.....

And I would never wiggle my ankh in your face[/quote]

I was going to look into this Tea Bag movement this week end and see what all the fuss is about.

So, I searched "teabagging". Did any of you know what teabagging was before these political things popped up?

They didn't either, I am sure or it would be named the New Boston Harbour or some thing.

I am not going to post what it is, but the sentence in red above ain't far off.

ellipses · Mod Joined: 29 Sep 2008 Posts: 9218 Location: WashPa!

OndinitaAKALibchit · Posted: Sat Jan 09, 2010 8:08 pm Post subject:

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OndinitaAKALibchit · Posted: Sun Jan 10, 2010 11:35 am Post subject:

You're right, Bus...That makes it even funnier! Laughing

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Professor · Apprentice Joined: 03 Dec 2008 Posts: 358

I'd love to see her face when someone finally tells her what it means!
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OndinitaAKALibchit · Posted: Sun Jan 10, 2010 12:21 pm Post subject:

Oh, I'd pay to see that, Professor! Laughing

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