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From: debray@sbcs.UUCP (Saumya Debray)
Newsgroups: net.politics,net.religion,net.flame
Subject: Re: School prayer
Message-ID: <607@sbcs.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 24-Mar-84 11:51:19 EST
Article-I.D.: sbcs.607
Posted: Sat Mar 24 11:51:19 1984
Date-Received: Mon, 26-Mar-84 08:21:06 EST
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Organization: SUNY at Stony Brook
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aecom!yudelson (from a pro-school-prayer viewpoint):

	> So the public schools should teach that religion is the 
	> root of all evil, that religion is all a gigantic lie, etc.
	> etc. etc.???

No.  It's not for the schools to take a position on religion.  (They seem to
have a hard enough time teaching such well-understood subjects as Math and
English!  :-) ) Religion is the business of the church and the individual
families.  Surely parents who feel so strongly about their kids praying can
have them spare a minute for prayer at home before rushing off to school?

Religion seems to be one of the most divisive forces at work in society
(witness Lebanon, North Ireland), and schools would probably be better off
not coming down on either side of the fence.  Let them teach the youngsters
how to THINK, and have them then weigh the evidence and make up their minds
for themselves.  
-- 
Saumya Debray, 	SUNY at Stony Brook

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