{"id":14,"date":"2010-08-02T15:26:45","date_gmt":"2010-08-02T15:26:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/godscomic\/2010\/08\/eat-sugar-you-coward.html"},"modified":"2010-08-02T15:26:45","modified_gmt":"2010-08-02T15:26:45","slug":"eat-sugar-you-coward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godscomic\/2010\/08\/eat-sugar-you-coward.html","title":{"rendered":"Eat sugar you coward!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--StartFragment--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>With school only a few weeks away I ask you, where<br \/>\nwould we be w\/o that purveyor of truth and tolerance&#8230;. the education system?<br \/>\nWhat must it be like to be so concerned about children that you can begin to<br \/>\ndictate what they are allowed to eat at school and more importantly at home. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>I bought some frosted flakes the other day and<br \/>\nfailed to notice that they came with a 3<sup>rd<\/sup> less sugar. Let me make<br \/>\nthis crystal clear. There is only one reason why I buy frosted flakes&#8230;.FOR THE <b>FROSTED<\/b> PART!<span>&nbsp; <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>If I wanted frosted flakes with the sugar<br \/>\nremoved I would have bought Wheaties! My wife tells me the kids can&#8217;t bring sodas<br \/>\nto school or snack cakes because the school is so concerned about obesity. They<br \/>\ndesperately don&#8217;t want my kids getting fat by food. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>They also don&#8217;t want them getting fat because of<br \/>\npregnancy but apparently that&#8217;s a different fix. Condoms are available so our<br \/>\nkids can have sex but it won&#8217;t make them fat. THERE&#8217;S your moral compass from<br \/>\nthe secular humanist. Heck if you encourage indulgence without consequences<br \/>\nthen why not be consistent and apply it to food? <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>Kids should be taught how to eat whatever and<br \/>\nhow much they want including snack cakes and Twinkies and then just teach them<br \/>\nhow to throw up. What&#8217;s the difference? Have sex&#8230;no pregnancy, or, eat empty<br \/>\ncalories then we&#8217;ll teach you how to remove the danger through the free-choice<br \/>\nof purging, heck we&#8217;ll even call it your constitutional right! All without<br \/>\ninconveniently notifying you&#8217;re parents. I mean isn&#8217;t that what school was<br \/>\nintended for.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>Sure we have a problematic national school<br \/>\nsystem that ranks near the bottom in math and such. But I&#8217;ll bet we&#8217;re at the<br \/>\ntop of the list when it comes to teaching kids what to eat and how to use<br \/>\nprophylactics. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>Remember we live in a society whose chief aim is<br \/>\nto allow us to indulge our appetites. Whatever I desire becomes my &#8220;right&#8221;.<br \/>\nReally? <span>&nbsp;<\/span>I desire frosted flakes<br \/>\nwith a third MORE sugar. I want at least a cup poured at the bottom of the box<br \/>\nto ensure my sugar fix; but no, not with big brother at the helm. The new<br \/>\nbattle cry for school kids is simple,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span><span>&nbsp;<\/span>Don&#8217;t<br \/>\ndeny me and don&#8217;t judge me either as my self-esteem couldn&#8217;t take the hit. Of<br \/>\ncourse reading and writing and arithmetic have their place, but when I fail at<br \/>\nit you can teach me how to sue others for bias or prejudice or emotional<br \/>\ndistress. That&#8217;s what the founding fathers had in mind for school, to teach me<br \/>\nand ESPECIALLY others&#8230;that no one is more important than <b>me<\/b>!<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>Yes school really came into its own when it<br \/>\nbegan to be run by the politically correct and no longer demanded personal<br \/>\nresponsibility. You removed swats and discipline along time ago and OH aren&#8217;t<br \/>\nkids nicer now? Finally you created a learning environment where kids can be<br \/>\ntrusted with automatic weapons.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>All of this and you think that the real problem<br \/>\nfor our kids isn&#8217;t moral absolutes; it&#8217;s with sugar in frosted flakes? Enough<br \/>\nis enough. This is education in America baby! Stay away from my sugar and pass<br \/>\nthe condoms, just like the founding fathers intended.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--EndFragment--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; With school only a few weeks away I ask you, where would we be w\/o that purveyor of truth and tolerance&#8230;. the education system? 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