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From: mmt@dciem.UUCP (Martin Taylor)
Newsgroups: net.politics,net.religion
Subject: Re: "Secular Humanism" banned in the US Schools.
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Date: Tue, 10-Sep-85 14:07:41 EDT
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>OK.  Then we'll make church attendance cumpulsory, just as a
>state certified education is now.  You'll have to help support
>the church with your tax money too, just so we're all on an
>equal footing.  Is it a deal?
>-- 
>
>Paul Dubuc      cbscc!pmd
I thought that the US already did support all churches with tax money.
Aren't they tax-exempt, which is the same thing as paying the proper tax
and then being given it back.  The taxes on some of those churches
would be pretty high, if they were based on the same rules as for other
properties.

If the churches did teach about other religions, in such a way as to
make reasonable choices among them possible (or to provide arguments
for or against having a religion) rather than just pushing one version
of TRUTH, then it might be worthwhile making church attendance compulsory.
As matters stand, it's surely against the interests of most people
(those belonging to a different religion or to no religion) that anyone
should go to a church that teaches their view of the world to be WRONG.
-- 

Martin Taylor
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