My Two Cents (10/23)
- Gun Control Sucks: Many gun control advocates love to quote lower murder rates to justify disarming us of our right to bear arms. And while murder rates may be lower in states/countries that don’t allow citizens to be armed (but there is contradicting data), rates of assault and armed robbery are as much as 50x greater than in states/countries where citizens can’t shoot back.
- The Dawkins Delusion: Al Mohler has sampled two excellent reviews critical of Richard Dawkins polemic book The God Delusion. Lots of good quotes, including "For mainstream Christianity, reason, argument and honest doubt have always played an integral role in belief. (Where, given that he invites us at one point to question everything, is Dawkins’s own critique of science, objectivity, liberalism, atheism and the like?) Reason, to be sure, doesn’t go all the way down for believers, but it doesn’t for most sensitive, civilised non-religious types either."
- French (Muslim) Youths: Ongoing anti-police violence in France, but the papers keep reporting it as "immigrant violence." Yeah, I wonder which immigrants that could be. Maybe the ones who only respect Sharia law, and not the rule of law?
- Home School Persecution in Germany: Those lovely secularists just can’t stand it when you don’t go with the state program. Now they are jailing home-schooling parents. Do secularists love the state so much that they want to force everyone to support their social engineering programs?
- Islamic Infiltration into the Political Left: Which political party would a radical Muslim join? Paul Belien argues that in Europe, they always join the left party because it is the easiest to manipulate into Islamifying the country, because they are given to the rhetoric of "Islamophobia." What a surprise.
Tags: My Two Cents
The homeschooling link goes to the French police violence article…
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27. Comment #2218 by Greg on October 19, 2006 at 7:14 pm
My favorite part of the interview:
"Where did the human body come from?"
"Darwinian natural selection."
"NO WAY!"
Once again the argument from personal incredulity rears its ugly head. How often have we seen this? A complete ignoramus has trouble wrapping his head around Darwin's simple idea, and rejects it out of hand in the most unscientific way imaginable. I tremble at the thought that he represents a majority of my fellow countrymen.
Gun Control Sucks: Think of 5 year old Amish school girls shot dead.
Home School Persecution in Germany: What if the home schoolers in question were Muslims?
Your right to bare arms is not infringed upon via regulation. Unless you believe the right to be absolute – which it isn't, as speech is similarly regulated (something that you advocate). But if you do believe that right to be absolute, why don't you explain to us how the REST of the right is supposed to work, that stuff about a standing militia.
"Why do you think religion is so big?" Alan Colmes. (Who drives me nuts.)
Mortality.
So Richard Dawkins thinks that there are aliens that are bigger and better than us, but he doesnt think there is a God. Interesting.
And why shouldnt Muslims homeschool? I just hope that right is one thing that is not re-written and changed (from the historically natural way) in our country – the right of parents to take care of and bring up their own kids.
I like my kids… and hate sending them to be with someone else 8 hours a day 180 days a year. Seeing as I "popped them out" and take care of them, I would like a say in their upbringing, even if I am ignorant. Because after all, who is to say that a parent should not take care of their kid the way they want to? (I see in my mind communes where people live seperately from their children…*shudder*)
And gun control is needed. Even if it doesnt keep guns away from criminals, I have to think it deters some of them. (Obviously gun control didnt deter the guy who shot the Amish girls…) Gun bans, or taking guns away from law abiding people is bogus. How would I get half my food every fall if my husband and dad had no guns???
So Richard Dawkins thinks that there are aliens that are bigger and better than us, but he doesnt think there is a God. Interesting.
Very.
And why shouldnt Muslims homeschool?
They should. How else can they keep away from mainstream society and teach their children all about Allah?
And gun control is needed.
Yes, it is.
Your right to bare arms is not infringed upon via regulation. But if you do believe that right to be absolute,
I totally agree Sam. I don't think ANY right is absolute or exists in isolation from other rights. I am actually for *control* of guns, just not prohibition. I probably did not make that clear.
Think of 5 year old Amish school girls shot dead.
Gun control may not have prevented such a terrible thing.
And why shouldnt Muslims homeschool? They should. How else can they keep away from mainstream society and teach their children all about Allah?
This is a typical attack on homeschoolers – that they want to isolate their children from society to brainwash them. While this may be true of some religious nuts, most Christian homeschoolers are interested in a superior education, and some isolation from the perverse culture during a child's younger, more impressionable years. Who needs their second grader learning about what homosexuality is, or having to deal with foul language, bullies, and even the drugs and violence in the younger grades?
Muslims most certainly do have the right to home school their kids, and if it's one thing that they do share with Evangelicals, it's a concern for the impious, anti-God, sexually immoral, and consumer culture of America. It's just that their solutions are different. Jesus teaches to transform culture through service and preaching, not through subversion and threats. But I am generalizing, and a more thorough comparison is probably needed.
"They should. How else can they keep away from mainstream society and teach their children all about Allah?"
Do you think they should not have this option in our free society?
Do you think they should not have this option in our free society?
I'll retype my answer, which you even quoted, for you. "They Should." What is your point here Lawanda?
No, my question was should they have the option to homeschool? the second time. Your answer was to the question – should they homeschool?……
;)