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Politics : The Left Wing Porch -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Rambi who wrote (3195)	1/17/2001 10:19:04 PM
From: YlangYlangBreeze	Respond to of 6089

Rambi, Does anybody not like you? How do you manage such grace without as much as an emoticon or grinny thing. I agree with you for the most part. It is the context here that bothers me. My daughter is 10. When she was eight she went to a private school in Mexico where she was selected for the choir. They sang Christmas songs on TeeVee once, and sang at school functions. I really didn't mind her singing the songs about Christian mythology. Can i say that? i guess I just did. But it is the context here at this school that really bothers me. I don't mind her learning about religion, about varying beliefs, or what the kids at her school , who are predominantly Christian believe. Idon't mind if they learn about Hinduism, or Buddhism, or atheism, or druidism. I don't mind her learning about religious music, or the role of religious music, I just don't want it presented as the truth, along with the PoA, and democracy or equality as values. They sing the Battle Hymn, they recite the PoA. My daughter loves it. Religion, like it or not, has often been the inspiration for man's ultimate creative efforts Might I add, and vice versa? Those creative works whether art music, poetry also have the capacity to inspire a state that may be called/akin to religious experience. I'm not against that. I'm just saying that when we respond to it it is often without inhibition. Self drops away. It is so beautiful it brings tears to my eyes. I open up. I am moved. I respond deeply, and maybe without judgment. How can there be hate in the world, when this is so beautiful? Music, chanting, drugs, drumming, fasting, rituals, walking round a pole, yoga... may all elicit this changed state. I have a few gospel and religious favorites myself. But I don't teach my kid to recite them along with the PoA. I remember the awe my daughter used to express in the temples of Thailand. She was moved by the Bhuddas, or maybe the atmosphere. It was very authentic. (She was three or four.) I don't ridicule it, or foster it. She can choose to shake hands or not with god on her own terms. I won't use music as a vehicle to inject it either. I really don't think exposure to some of these things in school is going to indoctrinate your daughter- You're probably right, but there is a distinct Xtian bias. I am trying to learn to choose my battles more wisely. And this one, at this point, is probably not worth going to the mat for. Being as how I live in California, I am under threat of rolling blackout. All sorts of friendly closing here. Ivy know thyme two spill Czech, joelle