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From: rlr@pyuxd.UUCP (Rich Rosen)
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Subject: Re: Re: "Secular Humanism" banned in the US Schools.
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Date: Wed, 28-Aug-85 13:23:51 EDT
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> A few weeks ago, I caught the tail end of a news broadcast which told of
> some fundamentalist group using the Hatch Act against a high-school Chemistry
> teacher... apparantly they contend that teaching about elements not
> specifically mentioned in the Bible constitutes "secular humanism".  (Just
> one look at the so-called "Periodic Table" should convince you of that -
> all those symbols and numbers *must* be Satanic!  After all, it *was* invented
> by a godless Commie!)  [ANDREW ROGERS]

This is but one example of this trend.  Ironically, it would sound like
this argument (as described above) would kill itself in a legal sense.
If government is supposed to refrain from establishing a state religion,
then saying that "you can't teach this because it goes against our religion"
would be doing just that:  authorizing Judaeo-Christian doctrine as an
approved state religion.

Of course, the christocentrists could turn around and claim that "secular
humanism is a religion that denies the veracity of our claims, and if you
allow them to do this you are INTERFERING with our religious beliefs, and
FAVORING another religion!!!"  (Ubizmo damn it, I shouldn't have said that,
they're liable to use that one now...  Even though it makes about as much
sense as calling the teaching of real scientific learning an example of
the dreaded secular humanism.  I won't say I told you so.)
-- 
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	Rich Rosen    ihnp4!pyuxd!rlr