Originally posted by TLomon
The student says it right - God is not allowed in the classrom (and I don't believe it should be), but they allow this?

Your absolutely right, this is not acceptable either. This is another attempt by the christians to infiltrate a place of learning with more mythos.

If a kid wants to write freelance about devils and souls and whatnot, then they should be allowed to, however for it to be a specific assignment is not on.

and yes, I do see a religious agenda here.

If the student were interesting in the slightest, he/she would have written about the ethical dilemmas of such a fictional deal.

But no, its turned into a good and evil thing rather than the ethics assignment that it was meant to be.

The teacher should have known better, parents and students are not that intelligent. Give a more straight forward assignment that doesn't relate to any religious beliefs.

Originally posted by SaturnFX

Originally posted by TLomon
The student says it right - God is not allowed in the classrom (and I don't believe it should be), but they allow this?

Your absolutely right, this is not acceptable either. This is another attempt by the christians to infiltrate a place of learning with more mythos.

If a kid wants to write freelance about devils and souls and whatnot, then they should be allowed to, however for it to be a specific assignment is not on.

and yes, I do see a religious agenda here.

That is the funniest thing I've ever heard anyone ever say in my entire life!!!!!!!!

No honest to god christian would ever even bring up the concept of "how to sell your soul to the devil". Where the hell do you get your reasoning skills? I think your extremist atheism mindset blinds your thought process.

In fact I bet you would take a thread on endangered tigers and spin it into a religious conversation. Take that blind zealotry somewhere else. It has no place in intelligent conversation

[edit on 23-2-2010 by DaMod]

Originally posted by DaMod

Originally posted by SaturnFX

Originally posted by TLomon
The student says it right - God is not allowed in the classrom (and I don't believe it should be), but they allow this?

Your absolutely right, this is not acceptable either. This is another attempt by the christians to infiltrate a place of learning with more mythos.

If a kid wants to write freelance about devils and souls and whatnot, then they should be allowed to, however for it to be a specific assignment is not on.

and yes, I do see a religious agenda here.

That is the funniest thing I've ever heard anyone ever say in my entire life!!!!!!!!

No honest to god christian would ever even bring up the concept of "how to sell your soul to the devil". Where the hell do you get your reasoning skills? I think your extremist atheism mindset blinds your thought process.

In fact I bet you would take a thread on endangered tigers and spin it into a religious conversation. Take that blind zealotry somewhere else. It has no place in intelligent conversation

[edit on 23-2-2010 by DaMod]

Now that your finished your blind assumptions and rather poor understanding, allow me to respond.

1) I am not a athiest, I am an agnostic.

2) I didn't read the thread on tigers and it still doesn't sound interesting enough to read.

3) Allow me to demonstrate the example of how this is a potential christian ploy
Hey everyone, lets start learning about biblical creatures...well, we must know the bible in order to write down the concept...and yep, since the selling of the soul is a negative thing, then we have to accept a christian based devil.
Now then, we have the understanding of the devil being bad, giving up the soul is bad, and the temporary gain of materalistic profit followed by the falling away from God is a bad thing because life is a fleeting experience. Yes children, I hope you learned by the end of this report that no matter how you sell your soul and at what price, it is a bad experience...Go with God, accept Jesus and you will not have to sell your soul.

This is subtle advertising...like me saying, What would you ask a Pleadian alien as described by Billy Meyers in his book "My best friend the Pleadian"...oh, and now you gotta read the bloody book to even start discussing it.

Just because you do not understand subtle advertisment does not mean those whom do are without intellect...I personally would venture to say its the opposite.

However, good job on the many laugh faces...I am sure that proved...erm, something.

Originally posted by TheOneElectric
If the student were interesting in the slightest, he/she would have written about the ethical dilemmas of such a fictional deal.

THIS.

This story is little more than a sad attempt by someone who has no imagination and fails to understand the value of writing assignments such as this one. She is one of a large percentage of people who scream "persecution" rather try to get along with others. There is, by no means an attempt to force people to worship Satan by asking them to relate to a character in a fictional story.

[edit on 2/23/2010 by eNumbra]

First off I thought there was seperation of church and state
Second I would only write this: 'I can't make a deal with the devil, because there is no devel'.

I dont know-this is a response to a literary piece, as I understand it. Not as inappropriate as it might seem.

A more intelligent student, though, would have written the essay and made their point that way-maybe writing it about how they wouldnt sell their soul, maybe writing it about how she feels the school has already sold its soul, something along those lines.

My son told me about this book reading assignment at the beginning of his 5th grade school year. I was very unhappy to hear that while my child is forbidden to pray in school, hear about God in school, concepts such as selling your soul to the devil is perfectly acceptable in school.

The teacher tried to pass it off as harmless because it was on some best-seller list and "highly recommended by the board of education". I bet it was.

The secular humanist indoctrination is bad enough but REQUIRED reading about selling your soul in order to gain riches was beyond the pale! Yeah, no agenda here.