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by snaeker58 716 days ago
Skipping over my general dislike for schools being combined with any form of religion, what school should they go to?

Also why build a Lutheran school in an Apache reservation and not expect them to integrate some degree of their own culture into their new found Christian belief?

From what I understand this seems to be the closest school to them in their reservation. (citation needed)

But in general I can’t believe that one can be expelled in the 21st century in a western country under the reasoning of „doing something satanic“?!

What even is the definition of satanic? I actually want to doubt that that is their official reason of expulsion.

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>Also why build a Lutheran school in an Apache reservation and not expect them to integrate some degree of their own culture into their new found Christian belief?

To provide education informed by and providing Lutheran Christian values and practices.

Different Christian denominations have difference ideas about what constitutes valid syncretic Christian practice vs heterodoxy, paganism, or outright devil worship.

The Catholics are notorious for allowing a surprising amount of syncretism, and the average Protestant is known for alleging even the Catholics are practicing ugodly polytheism.

Do you believe it would be better that the Lutheran's didn't build a school there at all? It's not a purely rhetorical question, I can imagine arguments for that position.

>But in general I can’t believe that one can be expelled in the 21st century in a western country under the reasoning of „doing something satanic“?!

Is it actually hard to believe that a Lutheran school would throw you out for that, or is this rhetorical? Are you making a statement about your shock that religious schools are even allowed to exist, or what exactly?

> why build a Lutheran school in an Apache reservation and not expect them to integrate...

They built to school specifically to convert the locals and destroy their culture. The explicit goal of building the school was the direct opposite of "...integrate some degree of their own culture..."