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Religious liberty is the freedom to teach and be taught the truth, not false stuff. So that means you're free to teach and learn XXXXX's version of Christianity. (Insert denomination of choice.)

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The absolute wickedness and contempt of the man, to imply that all those heroic, dedicated, underfuckingpaid heros, public school teachers, somehow don't care about the kids, or say encouraging things to the kids, or instil them with confidence, or teach them. And in the same breath as the one where he defunds public education. What a terrible man he is.

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I mean, you can "just tell" who's a Christian, right? C'mon.

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Yes, exactly. And our taxpayer dollars go to those fucking vouchers, too. So we're subsidizing the theocracy and the profiteers, at the expense of our next generation's education.

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You mean Jeb!us?

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Bearded Hippie Jesus was the old model, from about the year 0 to the 1950s. He was then replaced by American Jesus, with his Gospel of Success, and none of that socialist jive, because the church in the US was convinced that the GOP was our only hope against commies, and the only way to make sure the GOP was elected was to flip their religion to cater to the GOP. He kept the long hair, because it was part of his trademark look, but he's no hippie now. He's the Anti-Hippie.

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"First, they came for the dead people, and I said nothing, because I was alive…"

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A teacher put her arm around that child and said, 'I love you. You’re capable. You can do this. Jesus loves you. We can do this together.'

Isn't that just another example of liberal teachers building up a child's self-esteem instead of teaching them cold hard facts? Why is it okay in a Christian school but not in a public school?

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My maternal grandmother was an atheist. At age ten she and her sister were placed in a catholic internment camp by their widower father.

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The ones I hate most are the ones that completely cover the comment box. That's usually when I head to Netflix. Like right now. It's one a.m. and way past time to close down the political horseshit.

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Is "Jesus take this math test for me" the scholastic version of "Jesus take the wheel" now?

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I only had 2 grades taught by nuns. One of them used to throw chalk at people during class and caused at least one kid to go into therapy. She liked me, though. When we had substitute teachers, she would leave instructions for them to have ME teach some of the subjects. I was in 6th grade, so obviously I was well-qualified to be teaching the things I was supposed to be learning.

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It's crazy how much private education can vary. In my area if your parents are even lower middle class you're in private school. Some of them cost more that college. The public schools are our dumpster fire. We don't have a voucher program though so we're all at least still paying for dumpster fires.

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That's another reason I don't like the idea of private schools. There are no real standards for the level of education.

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There are browser extensions (like killfile for chrome) that will block display of comment content from specific usernames.

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