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From: oliver@unc.UUCP (Bill Oliver)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: "Secular Humanism" banned in the US Schools.
Message-ID: <60@unc.unc.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 10-Sep-85 18:16:13 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep 10 18:16:13 1985
Date-Received: Thu, 12-Sep-85 23:49:20 EDT
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Reply-To: oliver@unc.UUCP (Bill Oliver)
Organization: CS Dept, U. of N. Carolina, Chapel Hill
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Summary: 

In article <519@osiris.UUCP> jcp@osiris.UUCP (Jody Patilla) writes:
>
>	That is fine, but if you are teaching the Christian creation myth,
>then you should also teach the Shinto mythology, the Hindu mythology, the
>American Indian mythology, etc. I see them all as equally valid. Christians,
>by and large, do not, as they are asserting the supremacy of their mythology
>over that of other cultures/religions.
>
>-- 
>jcpatilla
>


Oddly enough, when I was in public school, I did study Shinto, Hindu,
various Northern Amerindian tribal religious systems, 
Greco-Roman, Norse, Aztec, Mayan and Islam.   What I was never taught
was, in fact, Christianity.  If my experience in elementary and
high schools in Northern California, Texas, and Colorado (I moved
around a bit while growing up), most of the subjects, and more, are
available at least as electives.

Bill Oliver