The mother of a Kentucky high school football player is furious over the Christian baptism of her son during what he said was supposed to be a school outing to eat a steak dinner and see a “motivational speaker.”
Instead, Breckinridge County High School football coach Scott Mooney took 20 of his players on a trip to a Baptist revival, where eight or nine of the students underwent the Christian ritual of baptism, according to published reports.
Michelle Ammons, mother of 16-year-old Robert Coffee, said she’s upset that nobody ever asked her consent to take her son to the August 26 religious ceremony. She added that she’s even more upset with the school district superintendent Janet Meeks, who was at the revival and did not object to the coach including his students.
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It was a sad day when they did away with the lions………………..
How about “Nutjob college prof converts a Christan student to Secular Humanism without mother’s permission” Depends upon which religion you belong to.
With Islam you’re not allowed to interfere with a minor becoming a Muslim. If the Muslim converts back, that’s a mandatory capital offense in the Quran. They wrap you up in a burial shroud and stone you to death.
Is the mom concerned that the baptism won’t work, or that it will? And why should a 16-year need permission from his mom to give his life to Christ?
Today’s assignment:
Prove that there is no god.
for all of those who so eagerly denounce religion, I have a real question for you:
do you not believe in the human soul?
that is, do you believe that you are exactly the sum of the molecules and chemical reactions that take place in the physical space occupied by your body? or do you believe there’s more to you than that?
think about that one for a minute and then respond. I’m just asking a serious question.
# 36, of course not. Don’t be retarded.
#6 – Angel H. Wong
A variation I use with people is “If you think it’s acceptable to promote Christianity at school/courthouse/library, wait until it also is acceptable to promote Islam. Or satanic worship.”
If you can’t expose your kids to all, you can’t expose them to any. And just as well as MY god is better than YOUR gods.
#28, Dr Dodd, please try again. You’re being lazy and relying on the same old tired explanations. None of that is proof of intelligent design, any more than cancer or any of the thousands of other conditions your imaginary friend saw fit to inflict us with, is proof of satan.
#39-fpp2002
You are looking for a miracle where only simple observation is required.
Take those blinders off and have a good look around.
#40, Dr Dodd, you still haven’t provided any proof. Waiting…
#40, Dr. Dodd said – “You are looking for a miracle where only simple observation is required.”
Not a miracle. Just some proof. Still waiting on that.
So far you’ve provided bad poetry, and have ignored any questions posed to you. OTOH I suppose it might take a miracle to actually get a coherent response from you.
Please post something other than calling us blind. If you have something real to say, say it. If not, post your apologies.
You’ve been given all the information you need. How you choose to use it is up to you.
No apology required.
Just for fun – you prove there is not a God.
#43, Dr. Dodd said –
“You’ve been given all the information you need. How you choose to use it is up to you.”
Except that proof. Still waiting on that. Nope, no proof posted yet.
Oh, and just for fun, you prove there are no unicorns. If I propose that a mythology is in fact true it’s up to me to prove it.
So, you still don’t have that proof I take it. Very sad. Oh, I know, why not post again that I’m blind or can’t see what’s clear to you, or that I should prove that Zeus doesn’t exist (sorry, not sure what your gods name is, was is Odin?)
Anything but actually posting proof.
#Number 6 said “…or that I should prove that Zeus doesn’t exist (sorry, not sure what your gods name is, was is Odin?)”
I don’t remember the source, but I saw once “We’re all atheists about most gods, I just take it one god further”
I’ve never understood why the justification of there being a God is that life is far too complicated for it to have just happened. If life is so perfectly planned that it couldn’t have happened on its own, wouldn’t a God who created that life be even more perfect and complex to just exist on its own? How then could he have just appeared? Does that mean God needed a God to create him?
Read the Aquinian proofs of the existence of God, then get back to us. Nothing is cuter than an atheist who labors under the illusion that he can actually think.