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Pagan mom challenges Bible giveaway at North Carolina school

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Bibles distributed to public school students?

People who wants their religion promoted in public schools, almost always Christians, should be careful what they hope for. You have to also allow witch's spell books and the Quran to be equally promoted.


Ginger Strivelli, who practices Witchcraft, a form of Paganism, said she was upset when her 12-year-old son [who did not wish to be photographed for this article] came home from North Windy Ridge intermediate school with a Bible.


Pagan Mom Challenges Bible Giveaway At North Carolina School | Fox News
 
Bibles distributed to public school students?

People who wants their religion promoted in public schools, almost always Christians, should be careful what they hope for. You have to also allow witch's spell books and the Quran to be equally promoted.


Ginger Strivelli, who practices Witchcraft, a form of Paganism, said she was upset when her 12-year-old son [who did not wish to be photographed for this article] came home from North Windy Ridge intermediate school with a Bible.


Pagan Mom Challenges Bible Giveaway At North Carolina School | Fox News


nah the Christians want to have their cake and everyone elses and then eat it, but not the cake that they took from the gay people because they might catch the "gay disease"
 
Sigh. Always the double standard. Pass out bibles? Then pass out wiccan, pagan, etc too.
Religion should stay OUT of schools.
 
Sigh. Always the double standard. Pass out bibles? Then pass out wiccan, pagan, etc too.
Religion should stay OUT of schools.

agreed!!!!
 
What's the problem? He came home with a bible?

Perhaps if the Wiccan groups want to have a give away, they can hand out booklets on Wicca.... :shock: It's not like they're sending Jr. home with a 5 cc syringe of high quality vein candy.
 
Can you imagine if the school was giving out the Communist manifesto? We'd NEVER hear the end of it.
 
Can you imagine if the school was giving out the Communist manifesto? We'd NEVER hear the end of it.

Communism is a religion? :lamo
 
What's the problem? He came home with a bible?

Perhaps if the Wiccan groups want to have a give away, they can hand out booklets on Wicca.... :shock: It's not like they're sending Jr. home with a 5 cc syringe of high quality vein candy.

From the article:

According to Strivelli, the principal assured her the school would make available religious texts donated by any group. But when Strivelli showed up at the school with pagan spell books, she was turned away.


Reading is good.
 
What's the problem? He came home with a bible?

Perhaps if the Wiccan groups want to have a give away, they can hand out booklets on Wicca.... :shock: It's not like they're sending Jr. home with a 5 cc syringe of high quality vein candy.


well they tried to hand out books but the school stopped them...
 
What's the problem? He came home with a bible?

Perhaps if the Wiccan groups want to have a give away, they can hand out booklets on Wicca.... :shock: It's not like they're sending Jr. home with a 5 cc syringe of high quality vein candy.

The school stopped them from doing just that.
 
From the article:



Reading is good.

Well that's my point isn't it? If you allow one you allow all... or are you claiming Strevelli is considered a "Wiccan Group". :confused:
 
What's the problem? He came home with a bible?

Perhaps if the Wiccan groups want to have a give away, they can hand out booklets on Wicca.... :shock: It's not like they're sending Jr. home with a 5 cc syringe of high quality vein candy.

Well, if his mother had sent him to a Christian church and he came home with a Bible, there wouldn't be a problem. But, from the story, the public school did this. Big problem.

This shouldn't be minimized.
 
If I still had kids at home and my kid had a bible shoved in his hands, I would be VERY upset. How dare they push their religious propaganda on my child? He is a MINOR. He is in school to learn how to spell, count, read, understand science, etc etc etc. He is not there to learn some other scmucks religion. That is MY department. And HIS to seek out that which tickles his own ear. It not the school's responsibility to teach religion. Period.
 
Communism is a religion? :lamo

That's kind of the point. That it isn't. Yet something which clearly violates the separation of state and church is. If the communist manifesto, a book that can be used for education purposes, was handed out, we'd never hear the end of "liberal endoctrination". Yet you, a Christian, seem to downplay the handing out of Bibles and violation of C/S because it's not drugs.
 
Maybe someone should get a bunch of KKK pamphlets and tell the school to pass them out. Or better yet, Mein Camp.
Not religious material, but hey. They said they would pass out literature from whomever donated it.
 
Supposing he came home with a brochure from the KKK?

This school screwed the pooch.
 
Oh, I know I know! (raises hand)....Does the Phelps clan of Westboro have pamphlets? Pass them out to your kid. Especially if that kid's parent is in the military! Or has gay parents! Yeah! Westboro is Baptist. Religious. There ya go. Goose=gander.
 
Oh, I know I know! (raises hand)....Does the Phelps clan of Westboro have pamphlets? Pass them out to your kid. Especially if that kid's parent is in the military! Or has gay parents! Yeah! Westboro is Baptist. Religious. There ya go. Goose=gander.

They could pass out the Quran, too.
 
They could pass out the Quran, too.

The schools in my state need new textbooks. You wanna give them something? Give them those.

Save your proletizing or the constitutionally-permitted yet endlessly annoying times. With ADULTS.
 
The schools in my state need new textbooks. You wanna give them something? Give them those.

Save your proletizing or the constitutionally-permitted yet endlessly annoying times. With ADULTS.

Yep. I swear I'll never understand why people want to do things like this at a school. The audience is captive. Its really cowardly to take advantage of that.
 
This article could have been about me 2 years ago - except the wiccan part.

I have some religious beliefs (I believe in god - loosely speaking) - but I'm not affiliated with any religious sect.

When my son brought home a Bible I flipped my lid and hashed it out WITH the school . . . but didn't go totally PUBLIC because I didn't want to be in such an article and the one that everyone chastized all over the net.


In the end: my son's school let the GIDDEONS on campus and let them HAND out the Bibles - so it wasn't govermentally funded BUT they let strange people enter campus and pass out things to kids - that, without the religious context, became more disturbing to me.

But since then: we've had some incidences at our school (unrelated) that has led to an increase of security and anyone who's not registered or in the computer system cannot enter the premises without ID (etc) - so no Giddeons handing out partial Bibles (since they're never the new testament)
 
Bibles distributed to public school students?

People who wants their religion promoted in public schools, almost always Christians, should be careful what they hope for. You have to also allow witch's spell books and the Quran to be equally promoted.


Ginger Strivelli, who practices Witchcraft, a form of Paganism, said she was upset when her 12-year-old son [who did not wish to be photographed for this article] came home from North Windy Ridge intermediate school with a Bible.


Pagan Mom Challenges Bible Giveaway At North Carolina School | Fox News

Being agnostic I often see both sides as being asses. If you don't believe in religion or Christianity, don't practice it but why do non believers get their panties in such a knot?

and in all fairness-people who practice "paganism" tend to be the former high school nerds and losers who want attention
 
Being agnostic I often see both sides as being asses. If you don't believe in religion or Christianity, don't practice it but why do non believers get their panties in such a knot?

and in all fairness-people who practice "paganism" tend to be the former high school nerds and losers who want attention


one of the oldest relgions in history but nope your right they are "nerds"
 
Being agnostic I often see both sides as being asses. If you don't believe in religion or Christianity, don't practice it but why do non believers get their panties in such a knot?

and in all fairness-people who practice "paganism" tend to be the former high school nerds and losers who want attention

Well, either the school let's everything in and get distributed or they allow nothing. I can see that the school shouldn't make it look like they are supporting any distribution of any religious materials but as with most schools, they take it to the stupid fringes of irrationality and lack of common sense. I see those fringes reached because EVERYONE seems to have a canary about every god damned thing. Some kid wears a t-shirt that some teacher thinks 1 in a million people might think could be, in certain circumstances, when drunk or high, construed as possibly offensive, the police are called and the kid is expelled.

People are ****ing crazy these days... lots of hot air, so very little brains.
 
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