Instead I've confined myself to stories about happy fluffy bunnies.

[dolari]

"Church Senior Pastor Terry Jones tells The Gainesville Sun that spreading the church's message is more important than education."

We'll THERE'S your problem.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/08/26/national/main5266776.shtml

Comments

[madrona.livejournal.com]

So...where's, I don't know, the church's message?

Cause that ain't it.

[mundanecircus.livejournal.com]

That's the problem with Christian extremism -- the message is that Christianity, without Christ, peace or freedom, is the only religion, and everything else is the devil's work. And Bush really loves an all-Christian America -- the main reason why we fought the Taliban after 9/11, instead of right after they came into power, is that Bush hates "competition" -- only his vision of Christianity, including demonising other religions, can be extreme.

I especially find Tom Wittmer's reason why the school did what they did:

"The next kid might show up with a shirt saying 'Christianity is of the Devil.'"

Practically, what if everyone came to school wearing a shirt saying "_________ is of the Devil?" (or, for athiest or agnostic crowd, "religion is of the Fairy Tales")? The sword cuts two ways, and the what the school did was right.

[drkbish.livejournal.com]

That actually reminds me of something that happened when I was a senior in high school. This was back in suburbia Houston (actually on the border between suburbia and backwoods) in 1992.

At the time, the black kids were always wearing shirts that had Malcolm X and or MLK on them, with the caption, "It's a black thing. You wouldn't understand." Some of the students (and at least one teacher, who spoke about it in class) found the shirts offensive and racist. However, the administration did nothing about it.

Then, one day, a bunch of the "kickers" (the local term for rednecks, as the popular country station at the time was KIKK) came to school all wearing white t-shirts, with the Confederate flag on them, and the words, "It's a white thing. You wouldn't understand."

The black kids were PISSED. The administration took the kickers in, and told them to change their shirts. The kickers replied that they weren't going to unless the black kids stopped wearing their shirts.

So, from that day on, both kinds of shirt were barred from the school...

Oh, that's funny!

[jessie-c.livejournal.com]

Will he be joining the rest of the Pythons in their reunion?

[makkabee.livejournal.com]

I wonder how the pastor would have reacted to kids coming to school with "Jesus is a false god" emblazoned on their t-shirts. I have the sneaking suspicion that if the administration didn't send them home, citing free speech rights, the pastor would have screamed bloody murder about "state persecution of Christianity."

Just an assumption on my part, of course.

It gets better.

[makkabee.livejournal.com]

Apparently the Church that put out these T-shirts is of Mammon.

People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw furniture.