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Comment Re:not-so-good? (Score 0) 646

by GCH (#27388337) Attached to: Mixed Outcome of Texas Textbook Vote

All of the discussion here seems to support the school voucher system. That way, you don't have to have your kids taught what I believe and I don't have to have my kids (if I had any) taught what you believe. Honestly, that is the only compromise that works for everybody.

The root issue here is not necessarily the correctness of one theory over the other, it is that neither Christians nor non-Christians want to pay for their children to be taught what they don't themselves believe to be accurate and correct.

To be quite honest, today's public schools are, for the most part, replete with incompetent teachers, undisciplined students, and fiscally irresponsible administrators, rendering them woefully ineffective in accomplishing their prime directive of producing intelligent and ethical members of a capitalist republic. The handful of capable teachers or administrators in existence are hobbled by the seriously flawed belief that it is possible for the government to provide an acceptable education system which is capable of pleasing everybody through responsible use of taxpayer dollars.

Comment Re:666 !!! (Score 0) 336

by GCH (#22881532) Attached to: Calculating the Date of Easter

I don't know about anybody else, but if I knew I was going to be nailed to a cross or subjected to some other torturous death, for a story I knew I had made up, I would be all about saying "We made it all up! It was just a joke!" Nobody is going to die for a made up story.
You are making the very false assumption that it was Jesus making up a story. Actually, the story - as it were - was settled upon in the 4th century by the First Council of Nicaea -- some 300 years after Jesus was executed.
Actually, I did not make the assumption that Jesus made the story up, I was addressing the implication that a group of guys got together and made up a "myth" about a man named Jesus claiming to be the Son of God and continued to refine this story throughout history. "The story" can be found in manuscripts dating to the late first century A.D. which match in approximately 99.5% of their content and the content of the current text, deviating only in spelling and word order. There are no doctrinal changes to be found among these manuscripts. There are somewhere around 24,000 manuscripts and manuscript fragments for comparison. It is these manuscripts, not the Council of Nicaea, from which we learn about Jesus and his life. One of the council's purposes was to address the interpretation of those writings to eliminate such practices as self castration and other non-biblical teachings and practices which had sprung up.

If we look at the history of early Christians, none of them received wealth for their beliefs and most were brutally persecuted. Not a good business model, if you ask me.
Trust me when I say the members of the First Council of Nicaea headed by Emperor Constantine I of Rome (who was hardly a pauper and certainly not persecuted) very much had both profit and power in mind when it was formed -- and it worked too. It was direct result of this Council and the subsequent Councils that led the Christian Church into becoming the most powerful and wealthy entity in the history of the world just a few centuries later.

I think you need to learn a bit more of history, GCH.
Yes, Constantine was not persecuted and I did not think that was implied by my comments. It is the previous 200 years of persecution I was referring to. You seem to be implying that Christianity and the story of Jesus started with Nicaea, which is ludicrous. I think it is you who needs to learn a bit more of history, ShinmaWa, and read up on the First Council of Nicaea and what it's purpose was.

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