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Re: COLUMBINE AND GOD IN THE SCHOOLS?
Mr. Schwartzenweintraub,
I am struggling here to see how Mr. Coombs offended you and the God you
sincerely believe in by asking a simple question. What is your
answer?....Whose God? Please help me understand why Mr. Coombs deserved a
personal threat and a juvenile- like insult around his manhood. What is up
with that? Good grief! Could you tell us specifically what role you played
in defending our rights to free speech and how that is relevant to this
discussion? Let's see..somebody needs anger management counseling....Mmmm.
John Cronin
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> From: Wolfgang Schwartzenweintraub <wolfman@turbonet.com>
> To: Don Coombs <dcoombs@uidaho.edu>; Cliff Fallon <fallon@eecs.wsu.edu>
> Cc: vision2020@moscow.com
> Subject: Re: COLUMBINE AND GOD IN THE SCHOOLS?
> Date: Thursday, February 10, 2000 8:19 AM
>
> Coombs your entitled to your opinion that is what a lot of people in this
> world would say myself included. I do not agree with your attitude nor
do I
> respect your views or small talk about the Lord, God, Jesus Christ. If
you
> said those things to me in the middle of a wheat field and not on the
> University of Idaho campus I would take you apart limb by limb. You
aren't
> man enough to back yourself up. It is little pucks like you that some of
us
> defended many years ago in a far away place. We defended your right to
make
> us sick with your rhetoric. You have the right to say what you want about
> some of us and our Lord. But, don't flatter yourself to think you are
clear
> of me on this one. If prayer brings peace to some people why should you
> care. What is your alternative Don? Would you have us slaughter a sheep
> and toss the blood all over the wall of Columbine high school in the name
of
> Satan? Would you have every body explain things to you in terms only you
> appreciate. What the dickens does taxes have to do with all of this any
> way. Are you one of those wheat farmer that live around here on the
biggest
> welfare program in existence. Are you tired of buying Cadillacs for them
> with subsidized money? What really has your shorts tied in a square knot
> Don? You seem like a candidate for management anger consoling. With all
due
> respect;
>
> Wolfgang M. Schwartzenweitraub
>
> ********************************************************
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Don Coombs" <dcoombs@uidaho.edu>
> To: "Cliff Fallon" <fallon@eecs.wsu.edu>
> Cc: <vision2020@moscow.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2000 9:54 PM
> Subject: Re: COLUMBINE AND GOD IN THE SCHOOLS?
>
>
> > Whose God? If you are open to having all the faiths represented
(including
> > some I myself consider weird but would never think of identifying
> > here) then I guess I see no flaw in your argument--
> >
> > Unless you were thinking of not allowing atheist and agnostic point of
> > views to be represented, even though atheists and agnostics pay taxes.
> >
> > I found the point that God had been returned to the public schools
because
> > students prayed during the Columbine massacre --
> >
> > I found that a little tacky.
> >
> > There has always been prayer in the schools, as the joke goes, before
> > exams. Coercing people into praying your prayer to your God in a public
> > school doesn't seem a great idea to me.
> >
> > But I'll bet you're happy with the U.S. Congress -- rejecting the
> > appointment of someone as chaplain because he was a Jew. Apparently the
> > chaplain is always a Protestant.
> >
> > Don H. Coombs
> >
> >
> >
> >
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