God out of schools?
by StopTheTears 6 Replies latest jw friends
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cofty
Let's make a deal - don't pray in our schools and we won't think in your churches.
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cantleave
She pryed and prayed and 25 people including 9 children still died!
I woinder why that was?
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snare&racket
Which God?
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Village Idiot
“Of this General Assembly, the treasurer, attorney general, register, ministers of the gospel, officers of the regular armies of this State, or of the United States, persons receiving salaries or emoluments from any power foreign to our confederacy, those who are not resident in the county for which they are chosen delegates, or districts for which they are chosen senators, those who are not qualified as electors, persons who shall have committed treason, felony, or such other crime as would subject them to infamous punishment, or shall have been convicted by due course of law of bribery or corruption, in endeavoring to procure an election to the said assembly, shall be incapable of being members. All others, not herein elsewhere excluded, who may elect, shall be capable of being elected thereto.”
Thomas Jefferson - Proposed Constitution for Virginia. From The Online Library of Liberty: The Jeffersonian Cyclopedia, page 493, #4604.
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BILL FOR ESTABLISHING ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS.
In the 6th and 7th lines of the first section, the following words, “and not being ministers of the gospel of any denomination.”
The note of the same section of these words, “Ministers of the Gospel are excluded to avoid jealousy from the other sects, were the public education committed to the ministers of a particular one; and with more reason than in the case of their exclusion from the legislative and executive functions.”
Thomas Jefferson - Note to Elementary School Act, 1817. Making of America Collection pages 96 & 97.
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Captain Schmideo2
"Thanking God for sparing your life and home after a storm while others lost everything and/or died is like thanking a serial killer for sparing your family while murdering someone else's!" Betty Bowers, America's Number 1 Christian
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