[galveston]

Hello L:

It used to be that black children couldn't go to school with whites. Do you wanna go back?

excon

Ex, please explain how the two issues relate? What did a Bible verse at the beginning of classtime have to do with segregation?

The black schools did the same thing.

[ETWolverine]

You seem really stuck on violence in the media, and seem to believe that I condone that. I don't watch t.v. I only listen to "talk" radio. Capiche? I don't approve of violence, anywhere. Nada.

Good. Then I respect the fact that you aren't being hypocritical as many anti-bible people tend to be. Very good.

It only makes sense that parents and guardians would want to shield their children from the attempted child sacrifice, rape, gathering of enemies fore-skins, throwing one's virgin daughter to be raped by hordes of evil men, mass murder, punishment of rape victims and general blood-letting and mayhem that is so often featured in the bible.

Sure. It is natural to want to protect a child from such things.

But what about lessons of morality, of the triumph of good over evil, of morality, of love, sacrifice, community values, personal responsibility... are all of these things that you want to "protect your child from" as well?

Do you actually see nothing of value in the Bible?

Just wondering.

Elliot

[ETWolverine]

The Bible is a record of men and events, whether good or bad.

So you obviously don't want your children to study secular history either.

You know, things like the holocaust, our Revolutionary War, our Civil War, WWI, WWII, Korea, Viet Nam, the rigimes of Joe Stalin, A. Hitler, Pol Pot, the slaughter of innocent civilians in the Twin Towers, and on and on.

We learn from the history of the Bible, just as we do from other histories. At least, we had BETTER learn.

Good point.

[NeedKarma]

I'm pretty history lessons in school don't contain this content: The Dark Bible: Contents

[Wondergirl]

I am not saying there weren't problems, but anyone with eyes & ears and any sense at all can plainly see that we were better off before than we are now.

Were you alive back then? I was. I would not revisit that era.

So, to answer you: Yes, I'll take a seat on that "rewind" train. I would rather work on the problems of that time than the insurmountable issues of late.

But no one thought anything was wrong back then.

If you could go back to those years, what three things would you work on?