fungelicals (LOVE that term)

Thanks. It sort of sounds like something you'd get off an ice cream truck.

will always refuse to listen to interfaith dialogue.

And that's where my "other churches should help them" plan falls down, of course. If Pennsecola Christian is feuding with Bob Jones because Bob Jones accepts translations of the Bible other than the King James, how can the normal and sane Christians get through to any of these people?

therefore compromise, any compromise, will undermine their faith in the end.


And of course, people on the other side of the argument feel like any compromise on *their* part will end in mandatory conservative Protestant Christian school prayer, the expulsion of anyone who doesn't believe in God and a complete gutting of the entire science department.

then why should we worship Him?

And I think that's a big part of it. They are very worried that if people are given any chance to stop and ask "why are we doing this?" then they *won't* do it anymore. Kids spend more time at school than they do at home, and they fear that if God isn't brought up at school, they'll never think about Him at all. they already have enough trouble making sure their kids don't lose all their values by exposure to a secular world.

It's a Hydra - cut off one head and two more appear.

Good imagery there.