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From: jcp@osiris.UUCP (Jody Patilla)
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Subject: Re: "Secular Humanism" banned in the US Schools.
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> The school on the other hand, that is public schools, is a public organization
> set up to teach the sum total of man's endeavors, be it math, evolution, or
> religion.  The poeple being taught in these public schools have a right to 
> ALL the information concerning mankind on earth, and this definitely should 
> include the concept of creationism.
> 

	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

"At night, the ice weasels come."