VICTORIAN state primary school students will soon be able to take religious education classes which teach there is no evidence God exists.
The Humanist Society of Victoria has developed a curriculum for primary pupils that the state government accreditation body says it intends to approve, The Sunday Age newspaper reported.
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Students to be taught, there is no God
Showing posts with label secularism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label secularism. Show all posts
Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Sunday, September 28, 2008
Stop the desecration.
This is an urgent plea for your help. A poster on You Tube has put up video's showing a sacred host being desecrated. Please petition Youtube here. Lets get the word out and put it on as many blogs as possible.
More information available here
H/T Are We There Yet? and The Daily Grotto
More information available here
H/T Are We There Yet? and The Daily Grotto
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
McCain doesn't want to protect children.
Well according to Catholics for Obama-Biden he doesn't.
Is this really true?
From their blog:
John McCain now troubles us that he is not committed to the protection of children from such abuse. Senator Obama has said that all school age children need to be given age appropriate education to guard against sexual abuse and molestation. McCain is attacking Senator Obama for this statement. McCain is saying kindergarten children should not be taught that is wrong for strangers to touch them inappropriately.
I asked the poster where John McCain said that children shouldn't be taught this and I haven't had an answer yet but the post does have this included:
In charity, I assume McCain is not affirmatively for child molestation but has a misguided prudity that believes in saying nothing and hoping for the best. We, as Catholics, know where this leads and the results are tragic. We now have programs -- needed programs -- for the protection of children in our Catholic schools. Should John McCain be allowed to block programs with the same goals from our public schools?
I have watched a couple of video's today trying to find what it is that Barack Obama does support. Does he support programs that guard against sexual abuse or does he support Sex education? Here is a link to one tape:
http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=3386492
Barack Obama says:
"I remember Alan Keyes . . . I remember him using this in his campaign against me," Obama said in reference to the conservative firebrand who ran against him for the U.S. Senate in 2004. Sex education for kindergarteners had become an issue in his race against Keyes because of Obama’s work on the issue as chairman of the health committee in the Illinois state Senate.
"'Barack Obama supports teaching sex education to kindergarteners,'" said Obama mimicking Keyes' distinctive style of speech. "Which -- I didn’t know what to tell him (laughter)."
"But it’s the right thing to do," Obama continued, "to provide age-appropriate sex education, science-based sex education in schools."
This is not saying I want to protect children from sexual abuse. This is supporting sex education to young children.
What exactly would age appropriate science based sex education involve? What does Barack Obama want to teach children?
I have looked for the bill that Obama voted in favour of.
It is bill SB0099.
It can be read Here
from the comment box at Political Punch:
Obama is relying on everyone being so repulsed by the Sex Ed charges against him that no reasonable person could possibly believe it to be true.
Fact: The legislation Obama supported was not for the purpose of teaching young children about inappropriate touching and predators. That purpose already existed in the Illinois School Code in Section 27-13.2 many years before SB0099 was introduced.
Fact: The language in the bill changed the specific mandate for STD transmission and prevention education from grades 6 through 12 to grades K through 12.
If there was no intention of providing STD education in kindergarten, it would not be necessary to deliberately change the language in the bill to include kindergarten in the STD education mandate.
The bill leaves intact language which mandates that alcohol and drug use and abuse education be included in grades 5 through 12, but deliberately changes the language that mandates STD education in grades 6 through 12 to grades K through 12. The intent is clear. There would be no reason to change the grade level requirements unless kindergarten were to be included in the mandate for STD education.
Fact: There was so much objection to mandating STD education, among other Sex Ed topics, for kindergarteners and early elementary students - even among Democrat legislators - that an amendment had to be added to the bill changing the bill's originally proposed language of 'grades K through 12' in the STD education mandate passage back to the Illinois School Code's existing language of 'grades 6 through 12' (line 3 of the amendment - the amendment then goes on to change the bill's proposed requirements of 'grades K through 12' in several passages back to the School Code's existing 'grades 6 through 12').
Fact: Obama voted for the originally presented bill, before the amendment.
Fact: McCain's ad is true.
Finding this information wasn't that hard and didn't take me too long. I suppose Obama supporters think it is okay to misrepresent John McCain and pretend Obama wasn't supporting something that many people wouldn't want for their children. Fact is, When you look for the facts, McCains add is not an unfair attack against Obama. It is the truth.
Is this really true?
From their blog:
John McCain now troubles us that he is not committed to the protection of children from such abuse. Senator Obama has said that all school age children need to be given age appropriate education to guard against sexual abuse and molestation. McCain is attacking Senator Obama for this statement. McCain is saying kindergarten children should not be taught that is wrong for strangers to touch them inappropriately.
I asked the poster where John McCain said that children shouldn't be taught this and I haven't had an answer yet but the post does have this included:
In charity, I assume McCain is not affirmatively for child molestation but has a misguided prudity that believes in saying nothing and hoping for the best. We, as Catholics, know where this leads and the results are tragic. We now have programs -- needed programs -- for the protection of children in our Catholic schools. Should John McCain be allowed to block programs with the same goals from our public schools?
I have watched a couple of video's today trying to find what it is that Barack Obama does support. Does he support programs that guard against sexual abuse or does he support Sex education? Here is a link to one tape:
http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=3386492
Barack Obama says:
"I remember Alan Keyes . . . I remember him using this in his campaign against me," Obama said in reference to the conservative firebrand who ran against him for the U.S. Senate in 2004. Sex education for kindergarteners had become an issue in his race against Keyes because of Obama’s work on the issue as chairman of the health committee in the Illinois state Senate.
"'Barack Obama supports teaching sex education to kindergarteners,'" said Obama mimicking Keyes' distinctive style of speech. "Which -- I didn’t know what to tell him (laughter)."
"But it’s the right thing to do," Obama continued, "to provide age-appropriate sex education, science-based sex education in schools."
This is not saying I want to protect children from sexual abuse. This is supporting sex education to young children.
What exactly would age appropriate science based sex education involve? What does Barack Obama want to teach children?
I have looked for the bill that Obama voted in favour of.
It is bill SB0099.
It can be read Here
from the comment box at Political Punch:
Obama is relying on everyone being so repulsed by the Sex Ed charges against him that no reasonable person could possibly believe it to be true.
Fact: The legislation Obama supported was not for the purpose of teaching young children about inappropriate touching and predators. That purpose already existed in the Illinois School Code in Section 27-13.2 many years before SB0099 was introduced.
Fact: The language in the bill changed the specific mandate for STD transmission and prevention education from grades 6 through 12 to grades K through 12.
If there was no intention of providing STD education in kindergarten, it would not be necessary to deliberately change the language in the bill to include kindergarten in the STD education mandate.
The bill leaves intact language which mandates that alcohol and drug use and abuse education be included in grades 5 through 12, but deliberately changes the language that mandates STD education in grades 6 through 12 to grades K through 12. The intent is clear. There would be no reason to change the grade level requirements unless kindergarten were to be included in the mandate for STD education.
Fact: There was so much objection to mandating STD education, among other Sex Ed topics, for kindergarteners and early elementary students - even among Democrat legislators - that an amendment had to be added to the bill changing the bill's originally proposed language of 'grades K through 12' in the STD education mandate passage back to the Illinois School Code's existing language of 'grades 6 through 12' (line 3 of the amendment - the amendment then goes on to change the bill's proposed requirements of 'grades K through 12' in several passages back to the School Code's existing 'grades 6 through 12').
Fact: Obama voted for the originally presented bill, before the amendment.
Fact: McCain's ad is true.
Finding this information wasn't that hard and didn't take me too long. I suppose Obama supporters think it is okay to misrepresent John McCain and pretend Obama wasn't supporting something that many people wouldn't want for their children. Fact is, When you look for the facts, McCains add is not an unfair attack against Obama. It is the truth.
Sunday, May 25, 2008
The Golden Compass.
I am sure many of you have heard about this book by Philip Pullman. I haven't read them or seen the movie but I have heard enough to know that it isn't something I want my children to see.
We got a note from one of our children's teachers telling us that they were going to be watching some movie's over the next few weeks and one of the movies on the list was the Golden Compass. I felt sick when I read the note. We know that the movie is anti Christian and presents the church in a bad light. Why the heck would anyone want to show this movie to a group of children?
We have given permission for our child to watch all the movies except The Golden Compass and written a letter explaining what is wrong with the movie to the teacher and why we won't let our child watch it.
I find it a bit frightening that secularism is so ingrained into our society that someone doesn't think it is wrong to show a movie like this in a Catholic School.
If anyone is interested in reading a bit more about the movie and why it shouldn't be promoted and watched by young children Catholic Answer's has a great article on it.
We got a note from one of our children's teachers telling us that they were going to be watching some movie's over the next few weeks and one of the movies on the list was the Golden Compass. I felt sick when I read the note. We know that the movie is anti Christian and presents the church in a bad light. Why the heck would anyone want to show this movie to a group of children?
We have given permission for our child to watch all the movies except The Golden Compass and written a letter explaining what is wrong with the movie to the teacher and why we won't let our child watch it.
I find it a bit frightening that secularism is so ingrained into our society that someone doesn't think it is wrong to show a movie like this in a Catholic School.
If anyone is interested in reading a bit more about the movie and why it shouldn't be promoted and watched by young children Catholic Answer's has a great article on it.
Friday, October 05, 2007
Received in an email.
If you have children or grandchildren, work with children at church, or you have neighborhood children whose parents you know, please take note of the information below and pass it along to others.
Schools are distributing this book to children through the Scholastic Book Club. The name of the book is “Conversations with God.” James Dobson talked about this book twice this week. It is devastating. Parents, churches and Christian schools need to be aware of it. Please pass this information on to churches, e-mail addressees, Parents, Grandparents, Aunts, Uncles, Cousins, friends. Please pay special attention not only to what your kids watch on TV, in movie theaters, on the internet, and the music they listen to, but also be alert regarding the books they read.
Two particular books are, Conversations with God, and Conversations with God for Teens, written by Neale D. Walsch. They sound harmless enough by their titles alone. The books have been on the New York Times best sellers list for a number of weeks, and they make truth of the statement, "Don't judge a book by its cover or title."
The author purports to answer various questions asked by kids using the "voice of God". However, the "answers" that he gives are not Bible-based and go against the very infallible word of God. For instance (and I paraphrase), when a girl asks the question "Why am I a #######?" His answer is that she was 'born that way' because of genetics, just as you were born right-handed, or with brown eyes, etc. Then he tells her to go out and "celebrate" her differences.
Another girls poses the question "I am living with my boyfriend. My parents say that I should marry him because I am living in sin. Should I marry him?" His reply is, "Who are you sinning against? Not me, because you have done nothing wrong."
Another question asks about God's forgiveness of sin. His reply "I do not forgive anyone because there is nothing to forgive. There is no such thing as right or wrong and that is what I have been trying to tell everyone, do not judge people. People have chosen to judge one another and this is wrong, because the rule is "'judge not lest ye be judged."
Not only are these books the false doctrine of the devil, but in some instances quote (in error) the Word of God. And the list goes on.
These books (and others like it) are being sold to schoolchildren through (The Scholastic Book Club), and we need to be aware of what is being fed to our children. Our children are under attack.
So I pray that you be sober and vigilant about teaching your children the Word of God, and guarding their exposure to worldly mediums, because our adversary, the Devil, roams about as a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour (1 Peter 5:8). We know that lions usually hunt for the slowest, weakest and YOUNGEST of its prey.
Pass this on to every Believer you know. God bless! And, if you are in doubt, check out the books yourself.
The attack is on. How many parents have read the title of this book and thought what a great book for my child to read.
This author contradicts himself. Look at this paragraph:
Another question asks about God's forgiveness of sin. His reply "I do not forgive anyone because there is nothing to forgive. There is no such thing as right or wrong and that is what I have been trying to tell everyone, do not judge people. People have chosen to judge one another and this is wrong, because the rule is "'judge not lest ye be judged."
Of course there is no such thing as right and wrong but to judge someone is wrong. Now I really see why Louise has a label blithering idiots. There are so many out there.
God bless
Therese
Schools are distributing this book to children through the Scholastic Book Club. The name of the book is “Conversations with God.” James Dobson talked about this book twice this week. It is devastating. Parents, churches and Christian schools need to be aware of it. Please pass this information on to churches, e-mail addressees, Parents, Grandparents, Aunts, Uncles, Cousins, friends. Please pay special attention not only to what your kids watch on TV, in movie theaters, on the internet, and the music they listen to, but also be alert regarding the books they read.
Two particular books are, Conversations with God, and Conversations with God for Teens, written by Neale D. Walsch. They sound harmless enough by their titles alone. The books have been on the New York Times best sellers list for a number of weeks, and they make truth of the statement, "Don't judge a book by its cover or title."
The author purports to answer various questions asked by kids using the "voice of God". However, the "answers" that he gives are not Bible-based and go against the very infallible word of God. For instance (and I paraphrase), when a girl asks the question "Why am I a #######?" His answer is that she was 'born that way' because of genetics, just as you were born right-handed, or with brown eyes, etc. Then he tells her to go out and "celebrate" her differences.
Another girls poses the question "I am living with my boyfriend. My parents say that I should marry him because I am living in sin. Should I marry him?" His reply is, "Who are you sinning against? Not me, because you have done nothing wrong."
Another question asks about God's forgiveness of sin. His reply "I do not forgive anyone because there is nothing to forgive. There is no such thing as right or wrong and that is what I have been trying to tell everyone, do not judge people. People have chosen to judge one another and this is wrong, because the rule is "'judge not lest ye be judged."
Not only are these books the false doctrine of the devil, but in some instances quote (in error) the Word of God. And the list goes on.
These books (and others like it) are being sold to schoolchildren through (The Scholastic Book Club), and we need to be aware of what is being fed to our children. Our children are under attack.
So I pray that you be sober and vigilant about teaching your children the Word of God, and guarding their exposure to worldly mediums, because our adversary, the Devil, roams about as a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour (1 Peter 5:8). We know that lions usually hunt for the slowest, weakest and YOUNGEST of its prey.
Pass this on to every Believer you know. God bless! And, if you are in doubt, check out the books yourself.
The attack is on. How many parents have read the title of this book and thought what a great book for my child to read.
This author contradicts himself. Look at this paragraph:
Another question asks about God's forgiveness of sin. His reply "I do not forgive anyone because there is nothing to forgive. There is no such thing as right or wrong and that is what I have been trying to tell everyone, do not judge people. People have chosen to judge one another and this is wrong, because the rule is "'judge not lest ye be judged."
Of course there is no such thing as right and wrong but to judge someone is wrong. Now I really see why Louise has a label blithering idiots. There are so many out there.
God bless
Therese
Wednesday, September 12, 2007
Christmas Time already??????
Today I went to Big W.
In the main foyer they had cleaned out their displays from Fathers Day and were putting up Christmas trees.
It is still 16 weeks till Christmas. Comercialism of these Christian events is getting out of hand. As soon as the Christmas decorations come down they will have a Valentines display and an Easter one too (well they did last year anyway).
Why is it that the secular society takes our Christian celebrations and perverts them? They make them into money making materialistic events.
I pity the people that are sucked in by these advertisers and spend more than they can afford in the spirit of giving.
In the main foyer they had cleaned out their displays from Fathers Day and were putting up Christmas trees.
It is still 16 weeks till Christmas. Comercialism of these Christian events is getting out of hand. As soon as the Christmas decorations come down they will have a Valentines display and an Easter one too (well they did last year anyway).
Why is it that the secular society takes our Christian celebrations and perverts them? They make them into money making materialistic events.
I pity the people that are sucked in by these advertisers and spend more than they can afford in the spirit of giving.
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