Whe are some people so opposes to Private Schools?

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no, I hate private schools because all of them in Mississippi exist for one reason:  to keep out black people.  The racist people who go to them are so arrogant also.

Funny, but up here that's the purpose of suburban public schools....regional differences I guess.

There is much more racial interaction between Southern Whites and Blacks than in the North. But the deliemma occurs when the blacks rise up in society.

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Opebo is a God-hater, that is why everything he says is so ridiculous.

I find it hard to hate something that doesn't exist.

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Opebo is a God-hater, that is why everything he says is so ridiculous.

I find it hard to hate something that doesn't exist.

Prove that God does not exist.

If he is indeed real, he should be abolished.

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Opebo is a God-hater, that is why everything he says is so ridiculous.

I find it hard to hate something that doesn't exist.

How do I know that you exist, that you're a real person and not some Artificial-Unintelligent computer program posting stupid ideas and thoughts?  Because honestly If I had to pick from you being an AU or a real person, I'd pick the former.

Why? You have realized that a lot of people don't believe in God anymore?

A welfare reciepient is dependent on welfare because he's poor of wealth.

A fanatic is dependent on religion because he's poor of intelligence.

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Look, I'm a liberal, and yea, I pretty much do hate religion, but does the government have the right to tell parents what is best for their kids? Absolutely not.  And even though I can agree with you alot of the time opebo, calling religious parents tyranical (sp?) is going a little far.  Just as you and me think prevention of religion in our houses would be best, the conserative crowd probably feels just as strongly if not more that Christian or relgious values are essential in life.  Do I like it?  No, but if you are going to fight for individual freedom, like any true liberal does, you also have to remember you're fighting for the freedoms of everybody, not just those that agree with you.  We both want government off ours backs and stop telling us what's best.  If we stopped parents from doing things we don't like, aren't we just as bad?  Gotta take the good with the bad man. 

I was only thinking of the children - the poor, defenseless children at the mercy of religious parents, indoctrinating them into their sick cults.  I don't know that individual rights and freedoms necessarily extend to the right to own/abuse your child.  Obviously at some point we must extend individual rights and freedoms to that child, at the expense of tyrannical parental power.

Secularism is the sickest cult of all. 

When has anyone commited an atrocity or murder or some other crime in the name of Agnosticism? The answer is never.

The whole zealous faith over reason promotes such behavior. It is a small step from putting faith over science (such as believing it's even remotely feasible to have 2 of each species of animal on a wooden boat) to believing you are justified in murdering someone you believe to be a witch ("Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live") and so on.

Religion promotes self-justification over external science/reason and so many evil deeds begin with self-righteousness. I do not say Religion makes good people evil; I simply say that it is a wonderful garden for growing evil.

As far as we are all prone to imperfections. Bull. I will never use my humanity as an excuse for failing; and indeed I would love to see a murderer argue that, as a human, he was simply imperfect.

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I could care less what every individual religion teaches or in better words, preaches.