Meanwhile, there’s a swear that for much of human history was so egregious that it could affect a person’s ability to function in society, and even be killed for it, and yet no one thinks much of calling someone a bastard these days.
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That’s bloody ridiculous.
(And I have known older Brits who still flinched at that word.)
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That’s going to depend on exactly how one interprets the trinity. After all, the Son, the Father and the Holy Spirit are ALL God.
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Yes, it fucking is. Full stop,
The kid said it to himself when he dropped something…so that’s a strawman there.
I really don’t. Especially when the most hypersensitive ones are literally trying to create a theocracy.
Because it’s an example of a kid beint treated in an extreme way by a school.
Um… who are they, exactly? These regularly people? Is the child in the story not a “regular person”? Do people who DO use it as a swear not “regular people” somehow, but deviants? Explain this term “regular person” for the audience, please…
They WROTE THE KID UP!
That is not what happened. They wrote him up.
Well, the only one’s whose feelings apparently matter here are the ones who follow super-sensitive supply-side jesus…
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Pull the kid aside and explain to them to use “God’s Wounds” or “Zounds” next time.
That’s what Othello exclaims when things go wrong.
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Just to reiterate… the child was disciplined for this, a note sent home, etc… not told something like that (which would have been totally fine).
I am also in the camp of teaching kids to use terms that are kind of older but not considered swears today… cause that’s kind of fun.
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Never swear by Jesus Christ. Instead, swear by Rick Santorum. Why swear by someone decent when you can swear by someone awful, and still alive?
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It is really amazing how many times a day I read something where people in positions of authority make everything worse rather than taking a simple corrective action. They are all obviously a bunch of fopdoodles.
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Bingo. First Amendment as applied to state taxpayer-funded institutions through the Fourteenth Amendment.
Besides, I could have sworn I heard that kid say “Cheese and Rice!”
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Call someone “sirrah”, which will no longer get you a rapier through your gizzard because people think it’s a fancy way of saying “sir” (it isn’t).
Or just send your kids on a Quebecois immersion course.
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It’s also possible that they’re racist… again, the race of the kid was not mentioned, but I’m wondering about that, still.
But yeah… enraging…
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Or a combination of racist and all hopped up on the Holy Bye-Ball
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It’s very often both, sadly… Love how some Christians love to ignore the plain text of the words of the person they call lord and savior… 
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I love this argument! My search of the interwebs tells me the second (or third) Commandment applies specifically to the proper name “YHWH.” Therefore, by the legal principle of inclusio unius est exclusio alterius, the commandment could NOT forbid abuse of the proper name “Jesus Christ.” Quod erat demonstratum. Stuff that in your pipe, teacher!
(ETA: John Cleese drew his sword and made me correct my Latin)
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A Hyperion reference!
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Did nobody read the article? The child’s teacher wrote the kid up, then the mother posted the notice on SNS. After that the Fox affiliate contacted the school board for comment. The school board replied to Fox’s request for comment stating that a correction (Read: Tell the kid to not say Jesus Christ in class.) rather than a notice (Read: The Notice of Disciplinary Action paper) was necessary. The school board didn’t write the kid up.
This isn’t the “Christians are out of control narrative” that you are making it out to be. One teacher sent the notice. The Fox affiliate took up for the kid’s mom and contacted the school board. The board commented that the notice was excessive.
My point is that telling the kid not to say “Jesus Christ” would have been appropriate. The local affiliate was not condoning the action or using it to highlight some kind of moral decay. They were calling the teacher’s action excessive.
Never at any point did Mindysan say that; you’re being disingenuous, not to mention making this discussion all about your own opinion over the actual topic at hand.
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Couldn’t this be simply teaching sensitivity to other faiths? I guess the real test is how they would treat someone acting insensitively to Buddhist or Islam. Do they get the same level of correction?
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Bullshit. Anyone who wants to start a fight because someone says “Jesus Christ” just wants to start a fight regardless. They are using it as a justification, and it’s unjustified.
You’ve tried to support the school’s actions with that in this thread, and it’s unsupportable from a moral, ethical, or legal frame of reference. It’s not even supported within the framework of the religion that is nominally affected.
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