ONE HEARTBEAT AWAYPART 50
(Mark Cahill's Book)
Girl says "HELL" in school suspended.
Dan Nephin, Associated Press writer
Pittsburgh, AP.... Brandy Mc Kenith, 7,
was suspended for swearing .... saying
the word "hell, " But her family says she was referring to the Biblical location of fire and brimstone.
She served the suspension Tuesday.
The Pittsburgh Public School's student code Of Conduct prohibits profanity. But doesn't provide a definition, spokeswoman Pat Crawford said.
The school would not comment further.
...."The school's policy says 'no profanity' and that is not further defined," Walczak said, "how should this little girl know that "hell" is not allowed?
It is questionable whether "hell" is even a profanity, and it certainly isn't in the way that she used it.
McKenith, a suburban Pittsburgh detective, said family members aren't "religious fanatics, " but there is a healthy respect for the Lord, so he accepts his daughter's explanation.
"She is under the impression that good people go to heaven and .... bad people go to hell. " he said Wednesday.
Why would that second grader think that good people go to heaven and bad people go to hell? And why do all of us think the same way?
On the day that
Terri Schindler
Schiavo died, I was
listening to Bill
O'Reilly's radio
show. He said, "I
hope she is in
paradise?
What is wrong in
believing in that? Don't you hope
that bad people are punished and
that good people are rewarded?"
I don't how so many people get the
idea that good people go to heaven and bad people go to hell, but it seems ingrained in all of us.
As my search continued, I began to realize that no matter what the world was telling me about being "good enough," to get to heaven, God had a different standard. And I realized that I needed to know what that standard is, so that I could make correct decisions
about eternity.
Our eternal destinations will be determined by that standard.
next post 2nd November
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