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Old 10-02-2008, 02:52 PM   #87
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let me say, as an american, i very much enjoyed just reading this whole thread. it took a while, but i was bored enough to do it!

let me also say that these very same debates rage on down here every day. down here any religious schools are private. but since public schools get such a bad rap, everyone always tries to bring up vouchers and alternative schools. its really a much bigger issue, but people seem to think just because a school has a religious affiliation, that its better.

i must admit i was pretty amazed by the comments by guzzy. i think they are pretty inflammatory and unfortunately ill-informed in most instances. i find it funny that he thinks its stupid to respect a muslims right to wear a turban, but finds it offensive if we don't honor a christian's wish to have easter off of school? isn't that awfully hypocritical???

Here is something I need to go on a little bit of a limb on. but let me speak from my experience. down here in the good ole u.s., we have the bible thumpers always screaming about how america was founded as a christian nation. yet we really weren't. anyone who actually studies history can find there was a pretty small amount of people that came to america because of religious oppression. mostly people came here to get rich. i can only assume that the people that ended up north of the border were the same. i am not implying they were a bunch of atheist heathens, but that its not as romantic of past as we wish to believe. for americas independence a lot of the same innuendos exist. our founding as a country wasn't based on religious issues, it was about money. we didn't want to pay those taxes and revolted. not because king george made the colonists pray too much/little.

i just find it funny that we try to root so much in religion when it often has very little to do with why things happened. and then its funny to hear people talk about how things should stay the way they were, when they weren't always that way to begin with.

guzzy i guess if you really like to keep canada the way it was, shouldn't you be learning sioux or something?

i also do find it funny that you think hitler was more of a threat to canada than modern terrorists.

once again, i enjoyed seeing others point of views on this. thanks for all the insight into canadas educational system.
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