-=> Quoting Roland Balke to Jean Halverson <=-
 
 RC> Unfortunately, keeping children out of the labor market
 RC> doesn't automatically place them in an education program.
 JH> 
 JH> True, but then the churches would be free to offer a kinder solution.
 JH> Back in Puritan colonies, the church _was_ the school.
 RB> I am constrained to point out that the Puritan colonies are nearly two
 RB> and a  half centuries ago.
 
 Yes, but the church of two and a half centuries ago produced a country with
 a 95% literacy rate.
 JH> And it was
 JH> seen as a responsibility of the church to provide the poor with an
 JH> education.
 RB> Like the magnificent job the churches in Europe did for the peasentry
 RB> during the Dark Ages?
 
 Let's talk post reformation clergy here. Martin Luther said that public
 schools would become the very gates of hell. What a prophecy!!!
 JH> Now that the government has taken over, we have disjointed
 JH> communities and  parents who believe that it is the government's
 JH> responsibility. 
 RB> No argument. The government is a jealous government, wanting no other
 RB> belief entites before it.
 RB> Hmm... sounds familiar.
 RB> Oh yeah. Two world influencing books have phraseology similar to
 RB> that... one which you can find in most every motel room, and one you
 RB> can find under  Marx in the library.
 RB> (For those of you in Rio Linda, the two book in question are the Bible
 RB> and Das Kapital.)
 It's a shame to hear a supposedly intelligent person declare the Bible to
 be on the same footing as the Communist Manifesto. The two are not similar,
 and it looks like you need to do some serious reading before you attempt 
 to make another such comment. Don't make yourself look ignorant.
 
 Maranatha (for those of you in Las Vegas, that's "The Lord is coming")
 Jean Halverson
... THE RAPTURE!....THE ULTIMATE UPLOAD!!!
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