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nator Member (Idle past 2199 days) Posts: 12961 From: Ann Arbor Joined: |
quote: OK, but do you have a problem with the following? Most of the institutions of The Middle East were founded in a Islamic context and in fact served a Islamic worldview, so I have no problem with government-funded Islamic schools.
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nator Member (Idle past 2199 days) Posts: 12961 From: Ann Arbor Joined: |
quote: So, this is supported by what evidence, exactly?
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nator Member (Idle past 2199 days) Posts: 12961 From: Ann Arbor Joined: |
quote: My niece's Catholic middle school taught a world religions class, and she enjoyed it very much.
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nator Member (Idle past 2199 days) Posts: 12961 From: Ann Arbor Joined: |
quote: Again, any particular evidence you have to support this assertion?
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nator Member (Idle past 2199 days) Posts: 12961 From: Ann Arbor Joined: |
quote: I am. Network TV news used to actually be about investigative journalism. Edward R. Murrow? Walter Kronkite? Now they are just about making money.
quote: Right. That's why the best informed people are the ones listening to non-profit outlets like NPR.
quote: Er, no. Mainstream TV news is far, far, far more conservative and lacking in real content and analysis than ever before.
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nator Member (Idle past 2199 days) Posts: 12961 From: Ann Arbor Joined: |
quote: Anecdotal evidence isn't good enough to base national policy upon.
quote: ...which is more personal anecdotal evidence.
quote: ...which is just your personal opinion. If what you are saying is true, though, shouldn't we find a scarcity of religiously-raised people in our prisons?
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nator Member (Idle past 2199 days) Posts: 12961 From: Ann Arbor Joined: |
That's why the best informed people are the ones listening to non-profit outlets like NPR. quote: It's not a joke, it's fact. It has been consistently shown through independent research that people who listen to NPR are better informed and hold fewer falsse ideas and misconceptions about various subjects than those who listen to, say FOX News.
quote: Rush limbaugh is not a journalist, he's an "entertainer". And, he lies and distorts. Have you ever fact-checked what he says? I have.
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nator Member (Idle past 2199 days) Posts: 12961 From: Ann Arbor Joined: |
quote: I never said they did. You DID claim, however, that faith-based schools do produce better kids than non-faith based schools, so what I an asking you for is the research or statistics or analysis which supports it. If you only have your claim without any kind of data or stats to back it up, you are just claiming something without actually knowing if it has any basis in reality. It's just an assumption or belief or hunch on your part, and as such, I have no obligation to accept it as fact. I am perfectly willing to accept evidence that faith-based schools turn out better citizens, but you have to provide some.
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nator Member (Idle past 2199 days) Posts: 12961 From: Ann Arbor Joined: |
quote: Then why don't they ever show the caskets of soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan?
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nator Member (Idle past 2199 days) Posts: 12961 From: Ann Arbor Joined: |
quote: I do not believe in corporate welfare and I find it ridiculous, but I pay taxes to support it anyway. Not believing in something and finding it ridiculous is not an adequate reason to not having to pay your taxes to support something. Being agfainst the Constitution is the reason to not have to pay for it.
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nator Member (Idle past 2199 days) Posts: 12961 From: Ann Arbor Joined: |
quote: Maybe we should put our money where our mouths are and make public school funding equitable and not based upon something silly like property taxes.
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nator Member (Idle past 2199 days) Posts: 12961 From: Ann Arbor Joined: |
quote: Attorneys are paid to win cases, not find the truth. Politics is about power, and religion is about faith in things unseen. Religion, politics, and legal argument are all ways of thinking or systems that are fundamentally different from, and frequently diametrically opposed to, the scientific method. The scientific method, by definition, invites informed criticism as a means to improve itself.
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