and jains, and buddhists, and muslims and hindus and sikhs, and baha'is, and shintos and pagans and everyone else who doesn't believe EXACTLY like this group of people whom i am SURE are WITHOUT SIN believe
to me, this story is far more upsetting than even the iraq war. it is 2006. it is america. OR, is it 1940 germany. you decide. (and NOW i understand why king george is STILL on his throne. THESE people)
from jesus general
the gist of the story is;
.............A large Delaware school district promoted Christianity so aggressively that a Jewish family felt it necessary to move to Wilmington, two hours away, because they feared retaliation for filing a lawsuit. [...]On the evening in August 2004 when the board was to announce its new policy, hundreds of people turned out for the meeting. The Dobrich family and Jane Doe felt intimidated and asked a state trooper to escort them.The complaint recounts a raucous crowd that applauded the board's opening prayer and then, when sixth-grader Alexander Dobrich stood up to read a statement, yelled at him "take your yarmulke off!" His statement, read by Samantha, confided "I feel bad when kids in my class call me Jew boy."...A former board member suggested that Mona Dobrich might "disappear" like Madalyn Murray O'Hair, the atheist whose Supreme Court case resulted in ending organized school prayer. She disappeared in 1995 and her dismembered body was found six years later.The crowd booed an ACLU speaker and told her to "go back up north."In the days after the meeting the community poured venom on the Dobriches. Callers to the local radio station said the family they should convert or leave the area. Someone called them and said the Ku Klux Klan was nearby.........
but please go to jesus general to read the letter(s) sent to one of the instigators of this racial/ethnic cleansing. his name is nedd kareiva but i think he's going to change it to adolph in the near future
i am very frightened. VERY
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dorian on our blog sent an email to the school board, being delaware residents he figured it was his duty....
pretty disgusting that this happened....
i read dorian's posting too.
this, to me didn't sound like one of our united states, but nazi germany. we must NOT let this pass
Since I have criticized Nedd Kareiva extensively, I think it would only be fair to offer a couple of words in his defense...
Jesus General appears to have been mistaken in assigning any responsible to Nedd Kareiva for the family having to leave the community. Local Christians took care of that long before Kareiva posted their contact information. However, Kareiva didn’t object to JC’s assertion and, in the apparent belief that JC’s statement was true, expressed pleasure and satisfaction for having played a role in this. So it appears that he can’t be criticized for chasing the family out, but he doesn’t get off the hook completely because he thought it was good that they were chased out and happy to think he helped. An ethical, virtuous person would have responded very differently.
Also, I don’t think that Nedd Kareiva is anti-Semitic. I haven’t seen anything from his criticizing this family’s Judaism. On the contrary, he actually attacks them for wanting to “impose their atheism” on the community. Clearly, he thought that the family was an atheist family, not a Jewish family — or he was lying here in order to portray the family as worse. Either way, he should be accused of anti-atheist bigotry rather than anti-Semitic or racial bigotry.
austin, i do thank you for your comments. it does appear i'm 'going after nedd'. i'm NOT just going after nedd, i am going after the community who did this to the family. i am sure there are people in that community who WOULD have spoken up for the jewish family, but were not in attendance of the particular meetings.
i find the general community's treatment of the family and nedd's acceptence of it obscene. beyond the pale. i have no words to describe how i actually feel.
and of course there is no question or disagreement in my mind regarding prejudices against atheists or agnostics (or for that matter someone such as myself)
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