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	<title>Comments on: Catholic Church demands that Spain scraps citizenship lessons</title>
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		<title>By: raytheist</title>
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		<dc:creator>raytheist</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2008 03:24:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Bravo, excellent news!   

Sister Maria Rosa de la Cierva, is quoted as saying, &quot;This is a frontal assault on the Catholic religion.&quot;  

How?  How *exactly* does a curriculum of Spain&#039;s constitution and the rights and responsibilities of citizenship equate to a &quot;frontal attack?&quot;   I don&#039;t know how the Spanish constitution works, but the State&#039;s job is to inform its students how the State works and how to work with the State.  Here in the U.S. (and I presume in Spain it is similar) it is not the State&#039;s job to teach, support, or endorse, the pet doctrines of ANY church.  Here in the U.S. the State is supposed to be &quot;hands-off&quot; when it comes to religious peculiarities. &quot;Hands-off&quot; and &quot;religion-neutral&quot; is NOT an attack.  If the Catholic Church (there) or the fundamentalist Christians here wish to be relevant, that&#039;s their own problem to figure out.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Bravo, excellent news!   </p>
<p>Sister Maria Rosa de la Cierva, is quoted as saying, &#8220;This is a frontal assault on the Catholic religion.&#8221;  </p>
<p>How?  How *exactly* does a curriculum of Spain&#8217;s constitution and the rights and responsibilities of citizenship equate to a &#8220;frontal attack?&#8221;   I don&#8217;t know how the Spanish constitution works, but the State&#8217;s job is to inform its students how the State works and how to work with the State.  Here in the U.S. (and I presume in Spain it is similar) it is not the State&#8217;s job to teach, support, or endorse, the pet doctrines of ANY church.  Here in the U.S. the State is supposed to be &#8220;hands-off&#8221; when it comes to religious peculiarities. &#8220;Hands-off&#8221; and &#8220;religion-neutral&#8221; is NOT an attack.  If the Catholic Church (there) or the fundamentalist Christians here wish to be relevant, that&#8217;s their own problem to figure out.</p>
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		<title>By: Palehorse</title>
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		<dc:creator>Palehorse</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Dec 2008 05:05:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Oh, well, it isn&#039;t the Catholic Church anyway which was eclipsed by that new church. Read Bella Dodd&#039;s testimony to the Senate Committee in the 50s.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Oh, well, it isn&#8217;t the Catholic Church anyway which was eclipsed by that new church. Read Bella Dodd&#8217;s testimony to the Senate Committee in the 50s.</p>
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		<title>By: valdemar</title>
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		<dc:creator>valdemar</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2008 17:46:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Gosh, seems like Spain&#039;s civil war didn&#039;t actually end any more than ours did. They&#039;re both continuing by other means. Viva La Republica, and all that. Let&#039;s form an International Brigade of militant atheists to stand around in Barcelona openly mocking the Vatican. This may, of course, slightly resemble &#039;going on holiday&#039; to the uninitiated.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Gosh, seems like Spain&#8217;s civil war didn&#8217;t actually end any more than ours did. They&#8217;re both continuing by other means. Viva La Republica, and all that. Let&#8217;s form an International Brigade of militant atheists to stand around in Barcelona openly mocking the Vatican. This may, of course, slightly resemble &#8216;going on holiday&#8217; to the uninitiated.</p>
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		<title>By: aZeroGodist</title>
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		<dc:creator>aZeroGodist</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2008 15:36:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Great news, about time a social education, ie a fiction vs non-fiction subject. More countries should follow this</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Great news, about time a social education, ie a fiction vs non-fiction subject. More countries should follow this</p>
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		<title>By: newspaniard</title>
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		<dc:creator>newspaniard</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2008 14:33:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>As a resident of Spain, I wholeheartedly approve of any legislation which reduces the political power of ANY religious group.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As a resident of Spain, I wholeheartedly approve of any legislation which reduces the political power of ANY religious group.</p>
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