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Subject: Re: Re: School Prayer -- My personal opi - (nfÞ
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Date: Tue, 13-Mar-84 11:14:00 EST
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/***** uokvax:net.religion / ihuxr!stanwyck /  1:30 pm  Mar 11, 1984 */
(*  This is admittedly more argumentative than the way I feel, I just 
    feel a need to present this issue.........			     *)

Is it possible that your religious belief, a belief in "non-God", and your
expectation that the state promote your religion, might be insensitive to
my religion, and in fact discriminatory against it?  I haven't really
thought about this, but the idea struck me and I couldn't argue myself out
of asking.........

/* ---------- */

Good people, there is a distinction to be made between not promoting any
religion and promoting atheism/agnosticism. Current American public schools
do neither, what with the various activities they conduct for some religious
holidays, and various things not taught because of pressure from the ignorant
(e.g. evolution). I still recall the time my first year Spanish class was
dragged over to see a movie containing transparent Christian allegory.

If I had my druthers, there wouldn't be government-sponsored public schools,
but a less ambitious hope would be that the schools that currently exist
at most enumerate the stands of various religions where appropriate (as opposed
to in science classes, for example).

						James Jones