Because Public Schools Are For Heathens

Southern Baptists are moving to open their own schools, offering an alternative to public schools that would educate a new generation about biblical principles. As the traditional school year begins today, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wake Forest is sponsoring a two-day workshop designed to train church leaders to open private schools.

“In the public schools, you don’t just have neutrality, you have hostility toward organized religion,” said Daniel Akin, president of Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wake Forest. “A lot of parents are fed up.”

Southeastern is leading the push, sponsoring a Christian School 101 workshop today and Tuesday.

The program is designed to train church leaders to open private schools.

“Southern Baptists see the new religious establishment in this country as secularism,” said Bill Leonard, dean of the divinity school at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem. “It dictates pluralism and diversity of values relative to doctrine, politics and sexual values.”

Southeastern seminary is fighting back.

Ten years ago, it started a master’s degree program in Christian school administration to help train principals.

About 40 people signed up for the workshop. Most are church leaders from small towns.

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Trapped Chinese miners survive on coal, urine diet

BEIJING (Reuters) – Two Chinese brothers who tunneled their way out of a coal mine collapse after being trapped for nearly six days survived by eating coal and drinking urine, a local newspaper reported on Tuesday.

Brothers Meng Xianchen and Meng Xianyou became trapped while working at an illegal mine in Beijing’s Fangshan District late on Saturday, August 18, the latest in a series of disasters to strike the world’s deadliest coal mining industry.

Two days later, rescue efforts were called off and relatives began burning “ghost money” at the entrance of the mine for the dearly departed.

“At first there was no feeling, but then I was so hungry I couldn’t crawl any more,” Xianchen told the Beijing News. “I got so hungry, I ate a piece of coal, and I thought it quite fragrant.

“Actually, coal is bitter and unsmooth but you can chew up pieces the size of a finger. In the mine, we picked up two discarded water bottles, and drank our urine. You can only take small sips, and when you’ve finished, you just want to cry.”

He said because they were eating coal, and were in the mine for nearly six days, they did not defecate.

“We were only able to do that the day before yesterday in hospital. It was full of coal.”

Both said they would not go back into mining.

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