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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Grainne who wrote (14424)12/23/1997 5:20:00 PM
From: Rambi  Read Replies (1) of 108807
 
You know, I came back and reread this post and have absolutely no idea what relevance it has to what I was trying to say, although it was really interesting. I was trying to express regret that our children are being limited in the scope of their musical experience, that we are depriving them of studying some of man's greatest achievements in the history of western music. I believe it's another step toward mediocrity and the dummying down of our education system and that this is happening because of intolerance on all sides. And it's occuring because of arguments just like this, which have nothing to do with the study of great religious music as an academic exercise, but a belief that any religious theme is an evangelical conversion attempt. I am not religious, but it doesn't scare me or intimidate me to be exposed to it. It is an important part of our cultural heritage and my children need to be knowledgeable about it, not ignorant of it. We need to broaden exposure to other beliefs, ideas, history, absolutely! But what a tragedy that we forbid a specific learning experience until someone decides that all beliefs are getting equal time. That seems to me to be educationally short-sighted.
But enough! Pass the rumballs, strum the lyre, dance a pagan dance and hum the Messiah and let's appreciate all of it.
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