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To: Emile Vidrine who wrote (1121)10/12/1998 9:15:00 AM
From: Arthur Radley  Read Replies (1) of 1542
 
Emile,
As we celebrate Columbus Day today, I find it amusing that you are still trying to promote your dogma of hatred and deceit in our public schools. You write of teaching our children about the "truth" when in apparent reality you offer propaganda that results in the events last week for the young student in Wyoming.

You offer the "truth", however, history is replete with others that have offered your narrow brand of ideology. You write of your Christian truism, but I find it ironic that we today celebrate the exploits of a rogue and most un-Christian individual as Columbus was.Just think! If it hadn't been for Columbus going against the Emile Speakers of Truth offered by your ilk of his era, we wouldn't even know there was a land which we call the United States of America. Your railing against the government of this country would be a moot point if the "truth" as you see it had prevailed against Columbus.

Now that the exploits of this un-Christian Columbus has given us a country with the unique governmental structure that avoids the dogma in dictating how and which religion our citizens practice, you want to indoctrinate our school children with the "truth" according to Emile.

You boast of "God so Loved the World", however, I would welcome an explanation as to how he came to inspire a "book" that led the religious leaders to warn that nothing existed beyond their immediate land and if someone was so inclined to venture out and explore, they would drop off into an unknown abyss because the "world" was flat and the "world" was the center of the universe.

Emile, you offer the "truth" today. But didn't your predecessors offer the truth during Galileo's era. Look what happened to Galileo when he questioned the "truth".

Bottom line, Emile! Was Columbus and Galileo correct or were the Emile's of their day correct. Who really offered the truth?
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