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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Sidney Reilly who wrote (32928)3/21/1999 12:25:00 AM
From: nihil  Read Replies (2) of 108807
 
Thats very interesting. I went to public schools in the 1930's and 40's that were steeped in religion and religious prejudice. We were read to from KJV and prayed at with the Lord's Prayer, which you may recall purports to be Christian but is actually unitarian (doesn't mention the trinity). I had a 8th grade teacher who threatened all unbaptised children (including Jews and unconverted baptists) with damnation. My experience, like that of many others my age, is the stongest reason I can think of to erect and maintain an inpenetrable wall between church and state. It is not enough that we no longer allow the state to burn heretics but the sensitivity of various communities mean that decent instruction in civics and history is no longer possible. A small price it seems to me to overcome religious preferences and discrimination by the state.
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