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Lees, Yours is indeed a strange view of the matter, but the most peculiar element--leaving aside whether Josiah wants religion in public schools or not--is not being able to acknowledge that an extreme and ultraliberal "separation of church and state" is what every American parent is dealing...

I'm not sure that "watering down" your hypothetical event, feature after feature, is worth pursuing much further. Having the clown show up only once rather than quarterly was one change, and now it's that the clown might not be using the pulpit after all. Anyway, what was described did seem...

It isn't because it's a clown as opposed to Mickey Mouse or Superman. The concept itself is disrespectful as well as unnecessary, and it's made worse by having the clown operate from the pulpit. As noted earlier, there are churches which specialize in things like bands, concerts, and "sacred"...

For most of us, that policy would probably be unnecessary; but there must be some people who, because of age or infirmities, could be misled and even panicked by hearing such sounds coming to them over the radio. Some version of the proposal might be worthwhile, therefore, perhaps just dealing...

I guess that's true, but the most likely scenario in this case would seem to be that the pastor or board had told the congregation what the plans are concerning this clown ministry idea. The idea of springing such a thing on the people seems unlikely. Okay, but in the end, if I tuned in to the...

I see. So then why are your posts cluttering up a "discussion board?"

For the third time (!), I have to advise you that today's Roman Catholic schools have become "lightweights" as concerns the teaching of doctrine. And the doctrines that are taught in them are, for the most part, what most Christian denominations hold in common. So, is this choice worse than...

Looking back through the previous posts, I saw that this was answered earlier. And also, your scenario described the clown as operating from the pulpit as well as it being something the church would be doing every three months, not just "in one service." If we rewrite the event like that, it...

As illogical as that attitude is, it really is what "Liberalism" has become. While continuing to bad mouth "Capitalism," the political party that most of those people belong to has twice as much money to spend on political campaigns as the GOP does, and most of it comes from corporate...

Well, that comment suggests that you are guessing at what the situation in today's Catholic schools is. Like it or not, the RC doctrines that the average Protestant would object to are hardly mentioned these days. It's more a matter of living morally, respecting others, believing in Jesus, etc...

Except that you almost never CAN strip the meat off the bone in one bite when eating a wing, and it's not easier to eat. I like wings, but those seem like strange arguments for wings over drums.

I'm not sure. I'm still trying to get past the fact that the question is based on an article from the Daily Beast! ROFLOL Have the Huffington Post and Daily Kos stopped publishing?

Probably. After all, it's not as though there aren't any others out there. More importantly, the church that thinks this kind of thing is good to do almost certainly thinks that other gimmicks of this sort are appropriate as well. But then too, it matters what denomination we're talking...

I would guess that there isn't a school nearby that's operated by the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod. And then too, Roman Catholic schools are not nearly as doctrinaire as they were some decades ago--more like teaching Christian basics that almost all denominations would agree to. The issue...

No, I meant that the service--particularly one that might have, as was suggested, a clown in the pulpit--should be dignified, etc., but that doesn't mean somber or stuffy. Well, the typical children's sermon usually features the minister sitting on the steps in front of the altar or somewhere...

Unfortunately, that is almost certainly the situation we'd face. When group prayer offered prior to school classes or city commission meetings, etc. was common in our country, the unspoken presumption was that this was reflective of our nation's basic Judeo-Christian culture. And while...

Hmm. I thought you were going to ask if ALLOWING the Satanists to provide chaplains wouldn't be an impermissible mixing of Church and State. I guess it depends on which religion the observer sympathizes with if the issue is viewed as an unconstitutional mixing of Church and State OR IF, on the...

Because 1) a church's worship service should be dignified if not somber or stuffy, and that's because of the nature of the gathering. Then also, 2) there is no real need for the clown-in-pulpit idea because many churches already have a "children's sermon" that is conducted in a more appropriate way.

Correct. Yes.

https://www.bible.ca/catholic-apocrypha.htm During the 16th century, Protestants and the Roman Catholic Church alike removed some or all of the books of the Apocrypha. This link ^ explains some of the reasons. As for "removed," these books that are not usually included in the versions of the...