Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!news.cs.indiana.edu!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: jclark@sdcc6.ucsd.edu (John Clark) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: 1st amendment (was: religious courses in a secular school) Message-ID: Date: 21 Apr 91 06:14:40 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: University of California, San Diego Lines: 17 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu In article tblake@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu (Thomas Blake) writes: + +Well, at my HS graduation, the pastor from the local Presbyterian church +got up and gave the invocation. We were not *led* by the pastor. Noone +had to sign up to be Presbyterians afterwards. The invocations I have And if a person got up a 'led' the gathering with 'by the Air, Wind, Fire, and Earth, we are assembled' you would bring down the house with cries of 'paganism' and 'satanism'. As long as these invocations are either close to your Christian beliefs or do not pass beyond worhtless platitudes, you comfortable. The answer is to eshew any religiousness rather than give support any one in a government sponsored gathering. -- John Clark jclark@ucsd.edu