It was some of the best discussion we've had this year. It brought to light for me how few people really know and understand their individual rights, but also excited me that they were so interested in learning about them. Maybe I'll bring in a recent Supreme Court case and ask how they would decide were they justices. Any suggestions of a good case I could bring to class?
Monday, November 23, 2009
know your rights
We talked about the Bill of Rights today in class. Some of the rights were vaguely familiar to my students, some of them brand new. None of my students had ever read them in their original language. I had a whole lesson prepared, but just reading through them one by one led to so much discussion that I never made it to the planned lesson. Their questions were unending, "What about this situation..." "What would happen if..." "Would I have the right to..." "I know of this one person who..."
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How about bring up free speech and relgion?
On the Tammeus Blog, that you link to, Bill lets atheists smear and threaten believers (telling them to SHUT UP AND DIE) but bans theists whom have been set up by the atheists.
Its become one of the most hypocritical blogs around.
What its real purpose is remains to be determined.
You forgot to mention that "die" is part of "crawl under the rock and die out".
Also, what other "hypocritical blogs" are out there? Please, give web site names.
As for the purpose of that blog, if you cannot get that the purpose of that blog is what the owner of the blog wants (not you) then you are really need some reality check.
Andrew,
What, you don't have free speech in manifesting your religion?
Who is actually suppressing your rights in public? Go to the Plaza and carry a sign "Jesus is coming!" - nobody will care about your religion.
Set up your own blog? What is your fixation with Bill Tammeus' blog? It is "his" private blog, not yours or mine or anybody else' - but his. He pays for it, it's his property, not yours or mine.
When it comes to his "interpretation" of your abso-f.cking crazy rants about science, religion, atheists you still don't get it - there is NO PROTECTION FOR YOUR FREE SPEECH IN HIS HOUSE.
You truly need a reality check. The more I have been watching you, it appears that you display symptoms of a mental disorder.
"Theists have been set up by the atheists?" - are you frigging insane? I am afraid you are. If you don't understand what the boundaries are in a conversation, of course you'll feel you are "set up".
Nobody sets you up - your god set you up, he knew what would happen and you are a perfect example of how irrationality of religion pans out.
Nobody told "theists" to respond to the "so called baiting" - turn the other cheek? Sounds familiar?
If you cannot get it, sorry, my friend.
Let's talk about "your purpose" in life? Not Bill Tammeus' but yours?
Mine is to live every day and not get killed, to have fun and not screw up too much. So, what's your purpose?
Anonymous, aren't you the atheist who posts at the Tammeus blog under many names?
"Who posts" or "used to post"? You mean today/in present or "did it in the past?"
I'll elaborate on "many names" when you acknowledge the basics of "logical thinking"
I mean universal human "normal" logic and not "delusional" Christian based "perversion of logic" that you practice.
Remember, you have till midnight tonight to acknolwedge that you are logical to start working your psychological problems out that include your god and pathalogical hate for "liberal Christians", people of other faiths, blacks, atheists (foreign or American born), agnostics, etc.
After this weekened you will be ignored till Jan 2011 - it will be very lonely 13 months for you.
Dagney,
Who are these people who keep hijacking your comments and not discussing the topic? Just wondering.
After having just spent a week in court watching one of my parishioners being tried and convicted of murder in a case where the prosecution had no real evidence, I've developed some real doubts about our judicial system. I've watched his family fall into despair and poverty as this whole process has sucked the life out of them. Now what remains is how we respond to them. What is our role as Christians, or simply as human beings in supporting the family. Admonitions about widows and orphans come to mind.
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