christian schools and doctrinal issues (was: Death penalty)

On Tue, 9 Nov 2010, Mike Findlay wrote:
> Mary queen of heaven - my first answer was I didn't believe that but I 
> modified it to say I suppose that was one way to look at her, being 
> chosen among all women as she was.

And not just chosen for any old task, but chosen to bear God himself 
within her womb for nine months!

> Mary being perfect - told her I didn't believe that and didn't think it 
> could be supported in the bible, but then catholics weren't exactly the 
> sola scriptura types.  Not that I am either, any longer, but the logic 
> of the immaculate conception is flawed, contrary to Christ's uniqueness 
> and a relatively recently arrived at doctrine. 

FWIW, the Orthodox place a strong emphasis on Mary's purity etc. too, but 
not to the extreme of having a doctrine of "immaculate conception".

> And the cynical bastard that I am I've told her that she should consider 
> becoming catholic, and that I'd do it with her, because of the 
> scholarship opportunities it might present beyond the unbelievable 
> numbers the school already delivers.  I'm told that for a class of 60 
> kids they got over $5 million in scholarships to be divied out.  
> Catholics do take care of their own.

The wife and I are looking at schools right now because we have to 
register our kids for kindergarten in the new year, and we're not sure 
which school would be the best place for our autistic boy in particular. 
Public?  Private?  Who knows.  Along the way, I checked the admissions 
page for the Pentecostal school that I graduated from (I only went there 
for grades 11 and 12; prior to that, I spent eight years in a mostly Dutch 
Reformed school), and it seems my alma mater is "constitutionally" 
required to try to ensure that 75% of the student body comes from homes 
that practice speaking in tongues; the remaining 25%, for their part, 
should at least be "evangelical".  I thought that was interesting.  (And I 
wondered if, by their definition, my family would be disqualified from 
*both* categories because we're not Protestant; the word "evangelical" is 
somewhat elastic and can sometimes be applied to non-Protestants, but it 
really depends on who's doing the defining and what their agenda is.)

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