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Friday, April 20, 2007

Politics “We Kicked God Out Of School”

Posted by Scott Moore on Fri, Apr 20 at 3:15 PM

Finally, someone makes some sense of this week’s awful school shooting. The reason 32 students were killed was because prayer and the Ten Commandments aren’t allowed in public schools.

God couldn’t help those kids who were praying for their lives because he was kicked out of schools by Madalyn Murray O’Hair.

Of all the troubling outcomes from the shooting, ideas like the following are maybe the most disturbing:

More here.

Oh, since I’ve risked being accused of not providing “context,” here it is: This is disturbing because far right religious groups will use the shooting to argue for what appears to be an authoritarian theocracy with little free speech. Also, all the context you need can be read in the comments of that website.

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Well at least we know God follows the rules. He's not allowed in schools, and in order to stop these school shootings he would've have to go into the schools, thus breaking the no God in schools rule?!

That makes perfect sense. Wait, isn't there a no guns in school rule too?!

Posted by unpaid intern | April 20, 2007 3:41 PM

"And then somebody took pictures of naked children and posted them on the Internet, and we said, 'Hey! Everybody's got a right to free speech!'"

Um, no.

I believe I can speak for all godless liberals when I say that we do, in fact, object to child pornography, thank-you-very-much.

This was a shameless attempt to inject a bit of universal common ground into this heap of theocratic nonsense. It's propaganda 101. Linking high school condom-distribution programs, Monica Lewinski, rap music, and swear words on TV to school shootings (while NEVER ONCE mentioning the guns themselves) is just fucking asinine.

Posted by Beaton | April 20, 2007 4:42 PM

Those people are fucking hopeless. Maybe it's time we just split the country up, red states and blue states, and let the wingnuts have their stupid theocracy. They can have W. as their president for life, they can waterboard people for saying the earth isn't flat, they can blunder into endless religious wars in the Mideast, and it just won't be our problem anymore.

I think that would work out great, so long as we don't let them have the bomb.

Posted by atul | April 20, 2007 5:06 PM

Well one possible reason God did not help the Jonesboro schoolchildren is because these peoples' map puts Jonesboro where Fayetteville is. Good job!!!

Posted by freekaleek | April 20, 2007 6:59 PM

Actually, I have to confess here. I may have somewhat purposefully have slipped a knife into God's locker, thus getting Him kicked out of school.

I am also non-religious, and I don't eat meat, so the strikes are piling up.

But I'm already on the waiting list for a posh place in comanche heaven, so you guys can kiss my big red butt.

Posted by Alex-jon | April 20, 2007 9:15 PM

What do you expect to happen next?

Posted by God is everywhere he wasn't just permitted to the school | April 22, 2007 11:47 PM

We kicked god out of school? Did this horrific scene unfold in a god free zone or was it gun free? Seems to me one of their biggest mistakes was kicking guns off campus, not the almighty. Besides, isn't god omnipotent?

Posted by ColtRemington | April 23, 2007 12:19 AM

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