Christians and others:do you think the parents of the child in the article...

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...below did the right thing? http://vogueristaentertainment.com/2010/12/09/new-hampshire-parents-pull-child-from-school-over-book-that-refers-to-jesus-as-wine-guzzling-vagrant-and-socialist/

"A New Hampshire couple has pulled their son out of his local high school after the teen was assigned a book that refers to Jesus Christ as a “wine-guzzling vagrant and precocious socialist.”

Aimee Taylor says her oldest son, 16-year-old Jordan Henderson, was required to read “Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America,” this fall for Bedford High School’s personal finance class.

The book is a first-person account
of author Barbara Ehrenreich’s attempts to make ends meet while working minimum wage jobs in Florida, Maine and Minnesota.

But in addition to taking aim at the idea of the American Dream, and arguing for a higher minimum wage, Taylor says Ehrenreich also takes aim at Christians and other groups in the book and uses foul language — all of which made Jordan unhappy.

“He started making some comments about the book and I said, ‘Well, just read it. You know you have to read it for school,’” Taylor told FoxNews.com. “But finally he came home one day and said ‘I’m not reading this book, I’m done reading this book, I am not reading any more of this book,’ and he slammed it down and said, ‘This is junk!’”

Taylor asked her son to show her what was so bad about the book and after he pointed out a few controversial excerpts she decided to read it in full.

“I finished the book that night, I could not put it down because I was just mortified by the take on this book as well as the language, and the Jesus Christian bashing was unbelievable to me, and that it was in our school was just amazing to me,” she said."
 
freedom of speech!!! i know some people feel strongly about their religion and things but that doesn't mean that you have to pull you child out of the school. maybe, they should have talked to the school about it or something?? but honestly, i think this was just excessive.
 
I would not take my son out of the school. But I would not let my child read it. And let him get an F for that time being. And I would complain to the school board.
 
Anyone who can't handle criticism of their beliefs is weak-minded.
 
They did what was best for them and their son. I don't understand why they were reading that book in the first place.....what ever happened to Charles Dickens, Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Poe, Chesterton etc....I agree with them as well and if my kid was reading that at her public school, I would be sending her to Catholic school asap.

Static--I don't think it's a matter of no being "able" to take criticism, more like not being able to defend ones beliefs in our ever growing secular society.

Peace,
Kate
 
" Taylor says Ehrenreich also takes aim at Christians and other groups in the book and uses foul language "

it takes aim at other groups and uses foul language ...
my concern would be that this book was not age appropriate for schools
nothing to do with what it says about Jesus
 
I do not think that they had to pull him out of school. Afterall, i have never heard of anyone pulling kids out of school for having to read racist books like, Heart of Darkness, like i had to read. They should get over it. Maybe the teacher wasn't trying to bash christians. The author may have, but i would have liked to have learned what the kids were trying to learn b4 the mother pulled her son out of school
 
They banned the Bible from the schools but not that book?? Obviously this is persecution at the hands of the state through the public school system. The not only did the right thing but should file a law suit against both the school and the teacher for violating constitutional rights to freedom of religion. This is a very obvious attempt to indoctrinate the student into the state sponsored religion of human secularism.
 
The kid doesn't need education because education leads to encounters with people that disagree with your belief? No, I don't agree. I also read the works of people who tried to prove god. Just to make sure that the proof attempts really are faulty.
 
If that's what the boy wanted, I don't see why the parents could be at fault here? Is it childish and naive of the boy, probably.
 
warning...our new society is full of anti-christs...non-believers and religious hatred....we cant even mention God or Jesus in some places....
 
Hey im a Christian and i would never read any of that junk! America is based soley on the religion of Christianity and no one is ever gonna change that! yes i would go to a differnet school if my teachers made me read that. people who insult Jesus is only insulting themselves and are jeous because we Christians have something that other religions dont have. and thats love and peace and solitude and knowing that you safe and being protected. other reliogns mite say that have that stuff, but Christians are the only whos who can really feel it and know it.
 
Yes I do think so. The book is biased and aimed at putting Christians down. Just because it's aimed at Christians, it's a controversy about the reaction. For example, if the book criticized MLK as being an "rambling gorilla who had only the interest of a stupid minority group in mind" or Obama, or anybody else that is black, hispanic, Jewish, a woman or Democrat, it would have been all over the place, and the school would have been investigated, and everyone would be upset. But because it's a Christian, suddenly nobody cares, and nobody sees it as being a bad thing anymore, and claim that the people are overreacting.
 
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