{"id":162,"date":"2012-01-25T12:19:16","date_gmt":"2012-01-25T17:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/godscomic\/?p=162"},"modified":"2012-01-25T12:19:16","modified_gmt":"2012-01-25T17:19:16","slug":"sugar-and-condoms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godscomic\/2012\/01\/sugar-and-condoms.html","title":{"rendered":"Sugar and condoms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have a question for you; where would we be w\/o that purveyor of truth and tolerance\u2026. the education system? What must it be like to be so concerned about children that you can begin to dictate what they are allowed to eat at school and more importantly at home.<br \/>\nI bought some frosted flakes the other day and failed to notice that they came with a 3rd less sugar. Let me make this crystal clear. There is only one reason why I buy frosted flakes\u2026.FOR THE FROSTED PART!<br \/>\nIf I wanted frosted flakes with the sugar removed I would have bought Wheaties! My wife tells me the kids can\u2019t bring sodas to school or snack cakes because the school is so concerned about obesity. They desperately don\u2019t want my kids getting fat by food.<br \/>\nThey also don\u2019t want them getting fat because of pregnancy but apparently that\u2019s a different fix. Condoms are available so our kids can have sex but it won\u2019t make them fat. THERE\u2019S your moral compass from the secular humanist. Heck if you encourage indulgence without consequences then why not be consistent and apply it to food?<br \/>\nKids should be taught how to eat whatever and how much they want including snack cakes and Twinkies and then just teach them how to throw up. What\u2019s the difference? Have sex\u2026no pregnancy, or, eat empty calories then we\u2019ll teach you how to remove the danger through the free-choice of purging, heck we\u2019ll even call it your constitutional right! All without inconveniently notifying you\u2019re parents. I mean isn\u2019t that what school was intended for.<br \/>\nSure we have a problematic national school system that ranks near the bottom in math and such. But I\u2019ll bet we\u2019re at the top of the list when it comes to teaching kids what to eat and how to use prophylactics.<br \/>\nRemember we live in a society whose chief aim is to allow us to indulge our appetites. Whatever I desire becomes my \u201cright\u201d. Really?  I desire frosted flakes with a third MORE sugar. I want at least a cup poured at the bottom of the box to ensure my sugar fix; but no, not with big brother at the helm. The new battle cry for school kids is simple,<br \/>\n Don\u2019t deny me and don\u2019t judge me either as my self-esteem couldn\u2019t take the hit. Of course reading and writing and arithmetic have their place, but when I fail at it you can teach me how to sue others for bias or prejudice or emotional distress. That\u2019s what the founding fathers had in mind for school, to teach me and ESPECIALLY others\u2026that no one is more important than me!<br \/>\nYes school really came into its own when it began to be run by the politically correct and no longer demanded personal responsibility. You removed swats and discipline along time ago and OH aren\u2019t kids nicer now? Finally you created a learning environment where kids can be trusted with automatic weapons.<br \/>\nAll of this and you think that the real problem for our kids isn\u2019t moral absolutes; it\u2019s with sugar in frosted flakes? Enough is enough. This is education in America baby! Stay away from my sugar and pass the condoms, just like the founding fathers intended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a question for you; where would we be w\/o that purveyor of truth and tolerance\u2026. the education system? What must it be like to be so concerned about children that you can begin to dictate what they are allowed to eat at school and more importantly at home. 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