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Letters: Use tax money to teach Bible in schools

Rotorua Daily Post
29 May, 2017 10:31 PM2 mins to read

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Some people complain that Bible in schools is wrong and shouldn't be allowed.

I disapprove of my kids being taught evolution at school, which teaches them that black people are inferior to white ones.

Evolution also teaches that life is meaningless, that the strong should exterminate the weak, that life is an endless struggle with no purpose, that goodness does not exist, that the impaired have no right to live, that final reality is suffering, misery and death.

These things are wicked lies and lead kids to contemplate suicide, as we can see by the terrible number that actually take their own lives.

Bible in schools, however, teaches that God created everything from a heart of love, that He sent His son to die for us so that we can be freed from wickedness and misery and live forever in inexpressible joy, ever beholding the face of God.

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I want my tax dollar to pay for Bible in schools because it is worth doing. I do not want my tax dollar wasted on evil pseudo-science drivel dreamed up by fascists, white supremacists and God-haters. Do a Google on Charles Darwin, Lenin, Marx, Hitler and Pol Pot, famous evolutionists: find out about their views on racial equality.

GJ PHILIP
Rotorua

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In her opinion piece (Rotorua Daily Post May 24), Rachel Stewart calls Steven Pinker a self-described optimist and herself a realist. The two are not mutually exclusive although Stewart tries to make that the case. An opinion is one thing, a fact is another.

Pinker's book merely points out that the way things are now is better than the way they were. That's not to say he thinks everything is 'tickety-boo'.

Stick to critical thinking by all means Rachel, but a glass half empty is also a glass half full.

MIKE BYRNE
Rotorua

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