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King
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Jan 2007
time: 04:23
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I've been reading a site about tablet PCs and found this list of planned usage of the aforementioned devices:
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At school as a high school guidance counselor
-Creating schedules for students via ink
-Keeping ink notes on students regarding various issues
-Note taking during staff and inservice meetings
-Presentations in classrooms to students
At home
-All of my everyday computing tasks: e-mail, IM, etc.
-Keeping track of to-do lists, grocery lists
-Note taking during a weekly Bible study
-Daily news reading and blogging |
Weekly Bible study? What's that? How do you do that? I've thought it had been studied and pulled apart to death already.
PS I guess the fact that it's done by a high school guidance counsellor appalled me the most.
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Deity
Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
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Feb 2001
time: 20:23
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Why is it appalling that a high school guidance counselor practices his own religion at home?
Wiki's definition:
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In Christianity, Bible study is the study of the Bible by ordinary people as a personal religious or spiritual practice. |
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Deity
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May 1999
time: 19:23
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Lots of people are religious Christians, news at 11.
JM
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Emperor
Xrr ZRRRRRRR!!
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Feb 2002
time: 03:23
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I guess there might be a confusion with the term bible study. Not so much rigor research, but more like studying the bible, as in reading it, discussing it, just normal people. Not trying to come up with new knowledge per se, but learning it themselves and just talking about it. That's bible study. No big deal.
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King
of the third Rome
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Jan 2007
time: 04:23
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Originally posted by Kuciwalker
Why is it appalling that a high school guidance counselor practices his own religion at home? |
Well, appalling might be a wrong word, but I'd prefer my kids to be counselled by a less religious person. Someone who spends time every week to study the bible or the quran or the talmud is not someone I want to teach or guide my children.
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Deity
Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
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Feb 2001
time: 20:23
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Originally posted by onodera
Well, appalling might be a wrong word, but I'd prefer my kids to be counselled by a less religious person. Someone who spends time every week to study the bible or the quran or the talmud is not someone I want to teach or guide my children. |
Presumably devout Christians feel the opposite. So why should we favor you?
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Emperor
Up in the Ayers
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Oct 2002
time: 17:23
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Well, appalling might be a wrong word, but I'd prefer my kids to be counselled by a less religious person. Someone who spends time every week to study the bible or the quran or the talmud is not someone I want to teach or guide my children.
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Every week? My gosh. Bible study is in addition to attending church every Sunday. You don't even know the depths of their depravity.
I know lots of folks who read some every day and make it a habit. Once a week is nothing, and anyone who goes to church every week will get their dose.
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Deity
With a view of the Rockies
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Aug 2000
time: 18:23
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Originally posted by onodera
Well, appalling might be a wrong word, but I'd prefer my kids to be counselled by a less religious person. Someone who spends time every week to study the bible or the quran or the talmud is not someone I want to teach or guide my children. |
I can think of many many many other qualities that I would care about more than if a guidance counsellor subscribed to a particular religion in their OWN time.
If a group of Christiand objected to an athiest guidance counsellor I would bet you would find their discrimination objectionable.
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Emperor
Up in the Ayers
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Oct 2002
time: 17:23
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The first Rome fell to "heresy," the second to the Turks, and the third to atheism.
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To heresy? The First Rome fell to the Goths. The second to the Turks and the Third to communism.
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King
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Jan 2007
time: 04:23
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Originally posted by The Emperor Fabulous
Your kid probably wouldn't be able to go to school in the US then.
Technically, Church can be Bible study. Would you prefer that teachers not go to church? Seems kinda close-minded. |
YMMV, but I think a tolerable level of religiousness is going to church a couple times a year, like, to bless your cake and eggs before Easter and one more time when you're passing by, to light a candle. Just because it is some sort of a custom or a ritual.
People who go to church every week are considered dangerously religious in my book.
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King
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Jan 2007
time: 04:23
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I still can't understand how you can study something that has existed for almost 2K years. It must've been picked apart and scrutinized by thousands of theologists (I guess you're supposed to study the spiritual content, not the discrepancies between the translations or logical fallacies and contradictions), surely there must be many derivative works like "The Bible and work ethic", "The Bible and sex", etc, how are you supposed to learn anything new and/or useful if thousands of people more prepared to do that have studied it already?
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You have to understand that in the US, there isn't a unifying national church that many Eastern European nations have.
The concept of "Bible Study" is popular with protestant churches who seek to define their identity with their own interpretation of the bible. Also, there are countless protestant sects that have emerged every since Europeans first arrived in North America. Religion is pretty fluid in the US. People are always leaving one domination in order to join another.
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