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Hoping to goodness is not theologically sound. - Peanuts

"It aint so much the things we dont know that get us in trouble. Its the things we know that aint so." -- Artemus Ward aka Charles Farrar Brown

Baby On Board.

"Nuclear war would really set back cable." -- Ted Turner

Already the spirit of our schooling is permeated with the feeling that every subject, every topic, every fact, every professed truth must be submitted to a certain publicity and impartiality. All proffered samples of learning must go to the same assay-room and be subjected to common tests. It is the essence of all dogmatic faiths to hold that any such "show-down" is sacrilegious and perverse. The characteristic of religion, from their point of view, is that it is intellectually secret, not public; peculiarly revealed, not generally known; authoritatively declared, not communicated and tested in ordinary ways...It is pertinent to point out that, as long as religion is conceived as it is now by the great majority of professed religionists, there is something self-contradictory in speaking of education in religion in the same sense in which we speak of education in topics where the method of free inquiry has made its way. The "religious" would be the last to be willing that either the history of the content of religion should be taught in this spirit; while those to whom the scientific standpoint is not merely a technical device, but is the embodiment of the integrity of mind, must protest against its being taught in any other spirit. -- John Dewey (1859-1953), American philosopher, from "Democracy in the Schools", 1908

Captain Pennys Law: You can fool all of the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time, but you cant fool mom.

"Bite off, dirtball." Richard Sexton, richard@gryphon.COM