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Crucifix ruling | Hanger

Crucifix ruling | Hanger

What is Mr. Nazareth doing in a state school? This question was raised by two students from Bavaria in legal proceedings, or rather, this question has been hanging in the air for two millennia. As far as we know, Mr. Nazareth taught life studies as a career changer in his time because his knowledge of physics and math was rather modest. He spoke few foreign languages, essentially only Aramaic. The problem with Mr. Nazareth was always that he wasn't really qualified to teach life studies either: Sometimes he would make grand speeches about love and tolerance, but these only applied to members of his personal religious faith, and in terms of pedagogy, that faith wasn't very advanced.

The students grinned and rolled their eyes when he once again explained his Bronze Age worldview: All people in the world are somehow evil, from birth, and therefore they should worship him, Nazareth, and his father, for whatever reason. You can't tell anyone things like that, idiot! Mr. Nazareth didn't have a high school diploma; he'd worked in construction before, but he actually preferred to chat, and the students often whispered about whether he had a construction crate of beer under the table when he started blustering again: "I don't bring peace, but the sword! I'll turn the children against their parents!"

Mr. Nazareth mumbled erratically, and it was controversially discussed at parent-teacher meetings and in the schoolyard, but not at the Bavarian Administrative Court, which ruled in favor of the complaining students: Mr. Nazareth has no place at an enlightened, state school in 2025. Sit down! Or fly to heaven if you can.

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