“But you will not teach them that the primary struggle they have to wage to make a better world is against their own nature.” — Dennis Prager

Spoken like a true Catholic :)

Being an Odinist I see this article as giving a good reason for avoiding government schooling institutions and forming our own.

“Being an Odinist I see this article as giving a good reason for avoiding government schooling institutions and forming our own.” — john fitzgerald

Until members of any religion can form their own schools, rather then enroll their kids in government schools (unless they live in neighborhoods where government schools are good despite the leftism and sickening PC white-bashing) they’d do better to enroll them — if they can afford it — in either good-quality sectarian Christian schools of whatever denomination (Catholic or any Protestant) or in Jewish Yeshivas (IF the Jews will take non-Jews — I’ve never looked into that). I taught briefly in a big Catholic high-school in Queens, NYC, after graduating from college (this was in the 70s), and I had one Jewish boy named Cohen in my class, who fit right in perfectly, played sports, and had his circle of close friends just like anyone else. By perfectly discreet pre-arrangement with the priests (the entire administration, and most of the teachers, were Catholic priests at that time), he simply didn’t participate in whatever prayers, ceremonies, or gestures went against his parents’ preference. He wasn’t embarrassed, and the other kids treated him as one of their own (probably, if anything, envying his immunity from participating in certain prayer sessions, etc.). I married a Catholic girl who has our kids in a local Catholic school. At first I was skeptical of the need (it’s an expense), but I’ve come to see it’s better. Reading Prager’s description of his education in the Jewish Yeshivas, I can say that they are definitely preferable to most public schools, no matter what religion may be practiced in the pupil’s home.

John, as an Odinist, what do you think of the article by J.P. Zmirak mentioned in the following excerpt from Steve Sailer’s blog (www.iSteve.com)?:

“Somehow I was oblivious to the journalism of the gifted  J.P. Zmirak until recently.
Here’s his article, http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=4127 , explaining in detail what I’ve vaguely alluded to in my reviews of the great ‘Lord of the Rings’ movies: How Tolkien’s books are a depiction of the battle for the soul of the Northern European culture between Christianized England and repaganized Nazi Germany.”

Zmirak feels Tolkien’s deepest theme in writing the Ring saga was to celebrate the historical union of the pre-existing Nordic culture with Christianity.