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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Greg or e who wrote (30098)	9/28/2001 5:03:08 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

Religious Liberty and the Rebuilding of the Public Philosophy by Os Guinness I thought the author did a really good job of framing the issue. Karen

To: Greg or e who wrote (30098)	9/29/2001 12:12:19 AM
From: E	Respond to of 82486

Nicely organized article from the perspective of the nice Trinity Forum Christians (Christian "in commitment") who want leaders to "engage the key issues of their personal and public lives in the context of faith." You wrote: I don't think that by saying SOCAS has in essence, failed to deliver on it's promise, that I therefore automatically advocate the entrenchment of a particular theological perspective on school children. Did you get the sense that I was?... Yes, I did. I thought you wanted theism to be promulgated in schools instead of leaving the teaching of either atheism or theism to parents and non-compulsorily-attended institutions and venues. That's why I made the remark below, since i'd be happy personally to design a free-thought curriculum for inclusion in the morning public school readings, assuming I am wrong in thinking you only want theists: "I think that if the classics of atheist thought were read aloud by teachers to classes of captive students; were read aloud before meetings of government bodies; were read aloud in all the same places you would like for Christian texts to be read aloud now, were featured as prominently by the mass media, you would get a glimpse into the difference between having government be impartial among its citizens where religion is concerned, and having government 'support atheism.' Actually, if there were a provision of equal time in public forums for atheist philosophers' and atheist religious historians' views to be presented to the populace, including schoolchildren, i would be mightily tempted to say, okay, bring it on."