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Wednesday, April 18, 2001
Chapel built in public school
The Associated Press

CUMBERLAND, Ky. — An alumnus of Cumberland High School has built a chapel inside the public school with permission from district officials.

School officials describe the privately funded chapel as a “quiet room” and say it gives students a place to escape from their troubles and pray, read or just sit quietly and relax.

Opponents of the chapel, however, argue that it establishes religion in the school.

“I find this so surprising, I'm almost at a loss for words,” said Steven Benen, spokesman for the Washington, D.C.-based Americans United for the Separation of Church and State. “They are inviting a lawsuit they are certain to lose. This is obviously and patent ly unconstitutional.”

The chapel is tucked away in a former third-floor storage room. It has three padded pews, a hand-made pulpit and altars and a display of the Lord's Prayer.

Retired coal miner Don Disney, a lifelong Cumberland resident who graduated from the school, was allowed to construct the 9-by-12 foot room by the school's site-based council. Materials were donated by local businesses. The pews were given by the Cumberland Church of God.

“To me, it's as good as the Crystal Cathedral,” Mr. Disney said, referring to the California church, led by Robert H. Schuller, that holds nearly 3,000 people.

The chapel opened two weeks ago and was dedicated during a ceremony that included nearly a dozen local clergy and some students, Mr. Disney said.

Brad Hughes, spokesman for the Kentucky School Boards Association, said the chapel falls into a legal gray area as long as it remains open to all groups.

He added, however, that posting the Lord's Prayer might not stand up because it espouses a particular religious belief.

-- Anonymous, April 23, 2001

Answers

Perhaps they can do a lab test of this theory:

The folks at "Stinky Cheese Productions" are at it again. (Despite 
their
odd name, they're a web design house with some gorgeous demos
http://www.stinkycheese.com )

This time, they sent along this proof that "HEAVEN IS HOTTER THAN 
HELL"

     The temperature of Heaven can be rather accurately computed.
     Our authority is Isaiah 30:26, "Moreover, the light of the
     Moon shall be as the light of the Sun and the light of the Sun
     shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days." Thus Heaven
     receives from the Moon as much radiation as we do from the
     Sun, and in addition 7*7 (49) times as much as the Earth does
     from the Sun, or 50 times in all. The light we receive from
     the Moon is one 1/10,000 of the light we receive from the Sun,
     so we can ignore that ... The radiation falling on Heaven will
     heat it to the point where the heat lost by radiation is just
     equal to the heat received by radiation, i.e., Heaven loses 50
     times as much heat as the Earth by radiation. Using the Stefan-
     Boltzmann law for radiation, (H/E)^4 = 50, where E is the
     absolute temperature of the earth (300K), gives H as 798K
     (525C).

     The exact temperature of Hell cannot be computed ... [However]
     Revelations 2:18 says "But the fearful, and unbelieving ...
     shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and
     brimstone." A lake of molten brimstone means that its
     temperature must be at or below the boiling point, 444.6C. We
     have, then, that Heaven, at 525C is hotter than Hell at 445C.
     -- From "Applied Optics" vol. 11, A14, 1972
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-- Anonymous, April 23, 2001