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To: Lane3 who wrote (14722)	5/28/2001 4:41:40 PM
From: Greg or e	Read Replies (1) of 82486

"I told them that God is personal, and part of our family culture, and that we can't discuss it at school." It is admittedly a difficult position to be in, especially in a mandated, secular humanistic setting. But X responded with her philosophy just as surly as any fundamentalist would. It's the claim of being philosophically neutral that bothers me. I would have said God's existence is not changed by Greg's unbelief. Then I would have drawn an analogy that a grade one student might understand, something to the effect that the sun would exist even if every one didn't believe it. Then I would stress the point that we don't "make people believe" because some people have different ideas about God than we do. This approach would respect the unbelieving child, while not judging the believing child as the product of idiot parents. I chose to send all three of my kids through the public system here and they seemed to fare alright. But then our schools are not required to indoctrinate their students into one, particularly biased, philosophical system, as you are Stateside.

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