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To: Ilaine who wrote (40787)	6/18/1999 10:07:00 PM
From: greenspirit	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

Cobalt. are there really only two alternatives? Is there nothing between embracing Christian political principles and allowing the Ten Commandments in our schools, or outlawing it in it's entirety? Of course there are a million different variations and countless shades of gray, but only in the area of human implementation. You and I can choose to live our lives in a myriad of different and fascination ways. Practical living offers limitless choices. Philosophies however are different. In choosing doctrine, life offers a strangely limiting duality. As individuals we may each choose our path from a bewildering array of choices and we each must live with the consequences of that choice. As a nation however, we must choose a national doctrine from the only two available. In other words, we either subscribe to Judeo-Christian principles in public policy or we subscribe to the public policies of secular atheism. Thirty plus years of experience tells us that our choice may be between a society filled with wasted human potential, crack babies and criminal predators, while elevating the separation of church and state to the status of Holy Writ, or a society in which that separation is understood as our founding fathers understood it, acknowledging a creator and the primacy of religion without establishing a national church. I understand your worry that religion has been responsible for a lot of ugliness in history, I will simply remind you that atheism in both its forms of fascism and communism, has been responsible for killing far more humans than all the religios wars of the first nineteen centuries. Living in the real world sometimes does not allow us the luxery of making perfect choices. Sometimes we must pick the least-bad alternative. We may differ on theology but we do not differ on the basic decencies that flow from Christian thought and which make it possible for different people to live together peacefully. By building educational institutions founded on the principle that no absolute, objective truth exists, we have caused us to modify the blueprint from which our safe bridges and stable structures have been constructed. Only by recognizing the link between the deterioration of society during the past thirty five years and the demotion of religion will we find a way to rebuild. Michael