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Count Roland, who appears to be off on a whirlwind European vacation, writes in with a comment on this article concerning the two English schoolboys who were punished for refusing to pray to Allah as part of being taught about Islam.

… we ‘enlightened’ Westerners were not allowed (philosophically) to have prayer in our schools (on pain of offending someone)? But yes, praise for those boys who show sterner stuff than the majority of adults in our decadent, opthalmoskeptic (navel gazing)*, arrogant culture which presumes its superiority to be self evident (as ‘pluralist’) in the face of contrarian cultural groups by being entirely self effacing. Wow, that guy must have filled my wine glass more than I remember to have such a runon sentence with so many prepositional connectors which may be unclear to those who are not in my slightly inebriated yet philosophically lingo aware mind…YIP. Everything in the Czech folklore show I just watched ended with ‘yip’.

By the way, it is interesting to note the number of non-Caucasian (Afro-Arab) people in my travels thus far in central Europe (and the cheap alcohol…) as well as the number of ‘Cathedral concert halls’ to support the various Churches’ continued existence.

Well, good Count, do raise a glass of Czech wine for yours truly, and for his good wife (who hath given up even the slightest sip of wine during her pregnancy)!

To distill what the good Count has said, he questions why the children were even exposed to prayer in school in the first place, since in our decadent, pluralist, “see no evil” society it is counted as received wisdom that never shall Religion and education be blended in any way, shape, or form.

Perhaps this wisdom only applies to Christianity, however. God fobid we should teach kids about Jesus, regardless of whether one views him as the Son of God or as a man who taught a great number of nice things. But by all means, full speed ahead…let us teach the kids all we can of the paedophile prophet and his idolatrous permutation (read: perversion) of the idea of the Judeo-Christian deity!

* ‘opthalmoskeptic’ — this is a funny turn of phrase, and one which I intend to crib for future use!

~ by Kenneth on July 14, 2008.