back off, man

[Douglas <dougwils@moscow.com>]

Dear visionaries,

My apologies for misspelling Ritalin. Kind of negates the impact of the 
occasional Latin. Ya think?

In response to Sunil, I am willing to make a deal. I will start calling 
them public schools in this forum, schools belong to us, the people, if you 
all will agree that we, the people, have the right and authority to close 
them down if we the people decide to do this in a law-abiding fashion. Deal?

And the verse you cite is the reason we don't have our kids in the 
government schools, but we do pay our taxes. Caesar has his image on our 
money, so it is lawful for us to pay taxes to him, even if he is being 
unjust. After all, it takes a pillage! But our children have God's image on 
them -- and we render to God what is God's.

My thanks to Ted for bringing up Carl Westberg's earlier post again. And 
the answer is that over the years, in the government schools, in the 
submarine service, and in Moscow over the many years I have lived here, I 
have had many acquaintances, friends and neighbors who do not share my 
peculiar views, with whom I have gotten along famously. But I do admit that 
I do not have very many friends in the ultra-leftist sectarian fringe. I 
seem a little extreme to them, and it makes conversation difficult.