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by SuperNinKenDo 716 days ago
>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?