Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!usc!julius.cs.uiuc.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!maverick.ksu.ksu.edu!rutgers!dimacs.rutgers.edu!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: jclark@sdcc6.ucsd.edu (John Clark) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: On Christian vs Public Schools Message-ID: Date: 22 Jan 91 05:57:30 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: University of California, San Diego Lines: 29 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu In article kriz@skat.usc.edu (Dennis Kriz) writes: +Recently Roger Black provided a list of examples supporting the contention +that it has become legitimate to ridicule/harass Christians and Christian +beliefs in public schools. + +Indeed, for my part I would say that the discussion of religion in public +schools has been so curtailed in this generation, that public school +officials have had to start rewriting history in order to avoid the subject. Of course on the other hand, Christian schools waste no time on presenting non-Christian traditions in a un-biased light. (Of course that is a generalization). My question for those who what the Christian view presented in Public Schools is this "What form of Christianity do you wish presented?" In my daughter's Public School she was presented with the fact that the Pilgrims were Separatists. What were they? They believed that a great amount of paganism was brought into the True Church which had to be irradicated. Who brought the paganism in??; The Roman Church. Why did they come to the colonies? Because they had made enemies of many other branches of protestantism as well as the Roman Church. How was Rhode Island started?? Because Roger Williams didn't agree with the Mass. group. And so on for the brotherhood of Christ. -- John Clark jclark@ucsd.edu