Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site osiris.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!epsilon!zeta!sabre!petrus!bellcore!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!umcp-cs!aplvax!osiris!jcp From: jcp@osiris.UUCP (Jody Patilla) Newsgroups: net.politics,net.religion Subject: Re: "Secular Humanism" banned in the US Schools. Message-ID: <503@osiris.UUCP> Date: Sat, 31-Aug-85 10:05:52 EDT Article-I.D.: osiris.503 Posted: Sat Aug 31 10:05:52 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 2-Sep-85 04:25:44 EDT References: <4141@alice.UUCP> <938@bunker.UUCP> <161@gargoyle.UUCP> Organization: Johns Hopkins Hospital Lines: 17 Xref: watmath net.politics:10775 net.religion:7519 > > Wrong! Thats not what secular humanism teaches. It teaches little children > how to think about suicide. It teaches them that some people's lives are > worth less than others. It teaches them that homosexuality and premarital > sex are choices for them to consider. It also teaches them to ignore any > values they may be learning in the home and that values are purely subjective > and how to make their own values. (if any!) > > Dan The crux of the "problem" is that the children might learn to (gasp) think for themselves, something that people don't do nearly often enough ! -- jcpatilla "The bland leadeth the bland and they both shall fall into the kitsch."