>>>>>>>and beheadings and suicide bombings - you know - standard Islamic stuff - would have happened if the situation was reversed and a bunch of Islamic kids went to a christian school..
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>>>>>>>http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/09/17/school-apologizes-students-pray-allah-field-trip-mosque/
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>>>>>>And a field trip to a Christian church where the students would be told that "the only way to eternal salvation is through our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ" is different??????????
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>>>>>>Perhaps (but I rather doubt it) some of the parents now understand how I feel when I go to a public event (football game, graduation ceremony, etc) and hear the invocation followed by "We ask this in Christ's name."
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>>>>>So you don't believe in Christ I assume. So, then what difference does it make to you? Will it corrupt your non existent soul (assuming agnostic)
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>>>>Why in the world would you make that assumption????????
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>>>You have an issue with people mentioning Christ. That is why.
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>>Mentioning Christ is fine. Many believe in his teachings and I have no problem with that. Where I do have a problem is it being pushed as the one true way. There are other deities and other faiths and I believe it only causes hatred to claim any of them is the only right answer. The irony is that Christ himself preached tolerance. He comforted whores, the powerless, criminals. He was crucified along with two criminals. I am not saying he was a criminal; he wasn't. He had spoken out enough to piss off the Romans and they killed him for it. But he walked in parts of his life that some of his followers disdain. IMO they need to study him a bit more closely, as he really was and not as he was deified. He was a man, as he said himself.
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>Well said, Mike. Personally I don't believe there is any God, but I don't "preach" my lack of religion, and I accept and respect that other people have their belief. There are only a few things I don't accept in this matter. One is people who are totally blind in their faith, and criticize people with the "wrong" faith. Then you have those who "throw their belief" at other people, and don't respect it when people ask them to leave them alone. And worst of all is people who use their religion to justify their own illegal actions, be it killings, terrorist attacks or suppressing homosexuals.

We agree. And this is one of the reasons I still hang out here. The UT can be frivolous and opinionated, and I am one of the offenders. You are one of the good ones who keeps me coming back. I will say something publicly I told you at the time privately. When I was kicked off the UT for saying something out of bounds to Kevin Goff (well deserved, I still believe, as anyone who saw his behind the scenes messages would believe) you were one of the ones I included in the conversation. You responded quite harshly, saying I was in the wrong. I wasn't ready to accept it but you were right.