Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site sphinx.UChicago.UUCP
Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!gargoyle!sphinx!beth
From: beth@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP (Beth Christy)
Newsgroups: net.politics,net.religion
Subject: Re: "Secular Humanism" banned in the US Schools.
Message-ID: <1101@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 6-Sep-85 10:22:52 EDT
Article-I.D.: sphinx.1101
Posted: Fri Sep  6 10:22:52 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 7-Sep-85 07:20:09 EDT
Organization: U. Chicago - Computation Center
Lines: 53
Xref: watmath net.politics:10835 net.religion:7544


		    [NO, PLEASE, I taste TERRIBLE]

From: dan@scgvaxd.UUCP (Dan Boskovich), Message-ID: <390@scgvaxd.UUCP>:
> Wrong! Thats not what secular humanism teaches. It teaches little children
> how to think about suicide.

I can't imagine what you're talking about, what secular humanism
"teaches" regarding suicide.  But I do know that I have yet to meet
anybody, religious or not, who hasn't at one time or another considered
suicide.  Why shouldn't we recognize that most Americans face thoughts
of suicide, and teach them what it *really* is - a permanent escape, not
only from the real but temporary pain they may be feeling at the time,
but also from the richness and joy that life has to offer them as they
travel through various experiences?  And teach them that *before* they
get into that pain, 'cause once they're desperate enough to consider
suicide, it's too little too late.

> It teaches them that some people's lives are
> worth less than others.

Huh? Who's lives are worth less than who's [whom's?]? How does it teach that?

> It teaches them that homosexuality and premarital
> sex are choices for them to consider.

You mean they aren't choices?  All those people I know (including myself)
who have chosen one or the other or both have done the impossible?  Gosh.
Or are you saying that they *are* choices, but that the lives of homo-
sexuals and people who choose to have premarital sex are worth less than
other people's lives?

> 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!)

It teaches them to make their own values?!  You mean it teaches them to
think for themselves, to evaluate options and make informed choices for
themselves?!  Gasp!  What is this country coming to when we have people
who think for themselves and don't just follow blindly when someone tells
them "this is The Truth"?  It's a far cry from Nazi Germany that we have
here, and I for one am appalled.  You're right, we better get The Truth
indoctrinated early...just in case it can't stand up under close
scrutinization.

-- 

--JB       (Beth Christy, U. of Chicago, ..!ihnp4!gargoyle!sphinx!beth)

		"Oh yeah, P.S.,
		 I...I feel...feel like...I am
		 in a burning building
		 And I gotta go."            (Laurie Anderson)