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Old 04-22-2002, 03:53 PM   #1
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Thumbs up Vouchers for Faith-Based Schools: My Take

Sure, it seems like a really crappy idea on the surface... but think about how many puppies will be in Dubya's litter when I apply for federal funds to run the nation's first Wiccan Marochial School! Wouldn't it that be worth the bricks coming out of the Wall right there? Wouldn't it?
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Do it. I dare ya'.
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Hee hee!

I used to not care about this issue so much. After all I went to a (technically) Presbyterian-affiliated college, and many of my classmates got federal financial aid.

But then I found out the Lutheran school my girlfriend works at teaches creationism in science classes. My tax money is NOT going to be used to lie to the nation's children.

[My gf doesn't actually work for the school, she works for an ESL academy that leases classroom space in the school.]
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Even better; we can teach the Ancient Egyptian creationism in my Wiccan Marochail School!

(Basically, the story is that the god Atum masturbated the universe into existence, from what I've been told by a jobless philosophy major. Even if it's not true, it'd still be a great puppy-inducer.
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...from what I've been told by a jobless philosophy major.[/QB]
Isn't that an oxymoron?

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Oxymoron? That's redundant!
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D'oh! That's what I meant! I can't even make the excuse of posting that before my morning caffeine...complete brain fart.
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<strong>Even better; we can teach the Ancient Egyptian creationism in my Wiccan Marochail School!

(Basically, the story is that the god Atum masturbated the universe into existence, from what I've been told by a jobless philosophy major. Even if it's not true, it'd still be a great puppy-inducer. </strong>
That's one of many Ancient Egyptian creation myths, and for some strange reason, lots of them involve masturbation (five words: Horus; Seth; lettuce; salad cream). Let nobody say the Egyptians had hangups about their sexuality...

Are there actually any Wiccan schools in the USA yet?
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I've HEARD (and have been to lazy to actually look it up) that there was back in the mid-70's in some Non-CA western state... don't remember what happened to it though. My feeble recollection of Facts-I-Almost-Paid-Attention-To wants me to say it was arson-ized repeatedly.

So no, probably not.
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