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From: linda@amdcad.UUCP (Linda Seltzer)
Newsgroups: net.politics,net.religion
Subject: Re: "Secular Humanism" banned in the US Schools.
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Date: Thu, 12-Sep-85 00:57:58 EDT
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Summary: Courses on Comparative Religion and Literature

> 
>    Is it a joke?  Or you propose an optional course on a variety of 
> concepts of Creation: Christian, Zoroastric, Hindu, religions of native 
> Americans, Manicheism, etc.  Same course would include also alternative 
> geographies (flat Earth, Earth resting on a giant fish etc.).  It could 
> make sence, if presented as a collection of different opinions.  
>    But which is THE concept of creationism which you refer to?
> 
> 	teoretically yours
> 
> 	   piotr

It seems perfactly reasonable for a school to teach comparative
religion.  We learned the Greek and Norse myths when we were in
elementary  school.  Why not have stories from many different
cultures?  why not read part of the Bible, part of the Talmud,
part of the Koran, part of the Vedas, and some of Confucius'
teachings?  As long as noone tries to force the students to
prefer one more than the others.