Pagan Mom Challenges Bible Giveaway at Public School

[Johnfromokc]

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/01/18/pagan-mom-challenges-bibles-in-north-carolina-school/

Watch the FOX bimbo's reaction in the video in the link above.

A pagan mother's challenge to the distribution of donated Bibles at a local school has prompted the Buncombe County Board of Education to reevaluate its policies regarding religious texts.

Ginger Strivelli, who practices Witchcraft, a form of Paganism, said she was upset when her 12-year-old son [who did not wish to be photographed for this article] came home from North Windy Ridge intermediate school with a Bible.

"Schools should not be giving out one religion's materials and not others," Strivelli said.
According to Strivelli, the principal assured her the school would make available religious texts donated by any group. But when Strivelli showed up at the school with pagan spell books, she was turned away.


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[BornReady]

When will people stop trying to push their religious beliefs on children? Let children go to school and learn in peace.

 

[Dana]

When will people stop trying to push their religious beliefs on children? Let children go to school and learn in peace.

exactly

 

[Leananshee]

Good for her. I despise stuff like this, especially distribution of Bibles and other religious literature, school officials inviting preachers to lead prayers for school events and the like. It's really Christians who should be opposing it, just like Christians are some of the most vocal ones against school prayer. It's really a minority of Christians who are all about trying to overstep the boundary between church and state like this obviously is, and they give the rest of us a bad name.

 

[cam elle toe]

I wonder if I could go there and give out copies of Aleister Crowleys Book of The Law:ninja...its a Religious text too isnt it?

 

[Leananshee]

Yep. So's the Satanic Bible. Shall we donate those, along with the I Ching, Tao Te Ching, Bhagavad-Gita, Lotus Sutra, Koran, and so on to all the school libraries?

 

[cam elle toe]

Yep. So's the Satanic Bible. Shall we donate those, along with the I Ching, Tao Te Ching, Bhagavad-Gita, Lotus Sutra, Koran, and so on to all the school libraries?

Yes. Lets:thumbup

 

[The Doc]

We live in a majority christian country, therefore you can get away with giving out bibles. LOL @ Witch Spell books.

 

[Codrus]

This made me think of CCR's rendition of "I put a spell on you"

 

[anathelia]

We live in a majority christian country, therefore you can get away with giving out bibles. LOL @ Witch Spell books.

The point is that it is unconstitutional for it to be acceptable based simply on majority. It doesn't matter how ridiculous you may find the Pagan religion. The point is that the mother in the video should have just as much of a right to distribute her religious text as anyone else.

 

[Leananshee]

We live in a majority christian country, therefore you can get away with giving out bibles. LOL @ Witch Spell books.

And if every supposed Christian felt that way it would be justifiable to revile every last one of them. It's bad enough that the slathering Moral Majority (actually a rather tiny MINORITY) thinks it can act as the spokespeople for all of Christianity. The MAJORITY of us live our faith. We can spread the Word by living it, not by shoving bibles down people's throats.

 

[alice in chains]

Yep. So's the Satanic Bible. Shall we donate those, along with the I Ching, Tao Te Ching, Bhagavad-Gita, Lotus Sutra, Koran, and so on to all the school libraries?

The Satanic Bible doesn't even teach violence (not even indirect violence) I'm really happy this woman is pushing peoples' comfort zones and boundaries and making it public. I hope it causes their whole local society to fucking crumble and forced to rebuild from the ground up.

 

[BornReady]

The MAJORITY of us live our faith. We can spread the Word by living it, not by shoving bibles down people's throats.

:clap

 

[All Else Failed]

yeah giving kids bibles is really pushing a religion on them


oh wait not its not



it is an important document that all educated people should read

Yep. So's the Satanic Bible. Shall we donate those, along with the I Ching, Tao Te Ching, Bhagavad-Gita, Lotus Sutra, Koran, and so on to all the school libraries?

yeah actually all of those should be found in school libraries

 

[Leananshee]

You're absolutely right. All of them should. The difference is in distribution of bibles by school officials from the office as opposed to making multiple religious texts available by the free choice of the students. Any real Christian will say, hey, read whatever books you want. Lord knows, I HAVE read all those books and I'm still a Christian. A bit more well-read and open-minded than your average right-wing zealot, but nonetheless a Christian.

Around here religious groups still pass out bibles; they just do it at the edge of school property and school officials aren't doing it, and that's fine. I'm hardly against religious free exercise. What I am against is any state entity passing out tracts, bibles, whatever, for any one religion, even my own.

 

[BornReady]

yeah giving kids bibles is really pushing a religion on them
oh wait not its not
it is an important document that all educated people should read

If they were handing out the Mormon bible would than be pushing a religion? Or is it just when they're handing out your particular book that it's not pushing a religion?

 

[Codrus]

If they were handing out the Mormon bible would than be pushing a religion? Or is it just when they're handing out your particular book that it's not pushing a religion?

"......I said Cod-damn!.........Cod-damn! The Pusher Man...."

 

[All Else Failed]

If they were handing out the Mormon bible would than be pushing a religion? Or is it just when they're handing out your particular book that it's not pushing a religion?

it is not pushing religion at all


handing a kid a book is doing nothing because odds are they will never even read it

 

[The Doc]

The point is that it is unconstitutional for it to be acceptable based simply on majority. It doesn't matter how ridiculous you may find the Pagan religion. The point is that the mother in the video should have just as much of a right to distribute her religious text as anyone else.

It is unconstitutional, but its reality. We live in a majority christian country so handing out bibles would be let to slide. My family is actually not Christians though, but they look at Satanism and Pagan as wierd and abnormal. I have noticed that among the view of the populace it is better to be aethiest then satanist or pagan. By pagan I dont mean hindu or buddist i mean the real wierd shit with the spells and stuff.

And if every supposed Christian felt that way it would be justifiable to revile every last one of them. It's bad enough that the slathering Moral Majority (actually a rather tiny MINORITY) thinks it can act as the spokespeople for all of Christianity. The MAJORITY of us live our faith. We can spread the Word by living it, not by shoving bibles down people's throats.

I dont shove a bible down any ones throat, but as Christians it our job to plant the seed.

 

[Leananshee]

It's all in how, Doc. I don't hide that I'm Christian, but I can tell you what kept me from Christianity to begin with were the foaming idiots finding a stump to stand on to tell me how I was going to hell. Used to be a fun game baiting those types, but damn, it's just too easy to do. Funny thing, I was better versed in the Bible even then. Who the hell would want to accept the teachings of Jesus with those freaks as the front spokesmen, I ask you? Plant the seed by being an up-front example.

And again, let 'em have whatever books they want in the library that kids can choose to read. As for passing out bibles, or any other religious book or tract, not on school property. There's plenty of other places to do that. This country was founded on separation of church and state, otherwise we'd all have been forced to go to and support the Church of England.