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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Ilaine who wrote (41137)6/20/1999 3:10:00 PM
From: Edwarda  Read Replies (2) of 108807
 
If well-meaning people truly believe that keeping religion out of public schools is destructive to religion, I don't think it is going to be fruitful to reason with them, because our understandings are so far apart as to be irreconcilable. And, the difference between what we believe shouldn't make any difference, except that now these same well-meaning people want to do something about their beliefs, by inserting them into these same public schools. If so, I have no choice but to fight them.

I think that one of the problems is that the people who seek to insert religion in the schools are not thinking through the whole issue. I remember responding to a coworker who remarked that he saw no problem with prayer in the schools by asking, "Fine, to whom should children be praying?" He hadn't thought about the difficulties posed to a child of faiths other than Judaism and Christianity--never mind to one whose parents might be highly moral and ethical but also happened to be atheists.

One of the problems of all of the "everything is relative" nonsense of our salad days is that it did undermine a certain societal moral compass. Unfortunately, pushing religion into the schools does not seem to me to be a reasonable answer to a real dilemma.
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