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

To: The Philosopher who wrote (52259)	7/3/2002 10:57:37 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

I don't feel no one ever ought to be hurt. Those people who want to force active worship on other people, should be hurt, as in disappointed. Those people who merely want an absence of religion in the secular class room should be humored (imo). Absence of religion in government is NOT being against religion, it merely preserves it for the spheres of human action not associated with the government. In a country that does not have an established church, and that was established with the radical proposition of not having one, it makes sense to be as separate as possible. Our founding fathers were radicals for their time, regarding the separation of church and state. To stay true to them, we all should be radicals in observing separation. I will follow the spirit of the founding fathers and be a radical for my times.

To: The Philosopher who wrote (52259)	7/3/2002 11:11:37 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

BTW- it is impossible to legislate what people "think". You are going astray of the real problem by throwing that in. People who wish to say the pledge in a non-governmental setting and put "under God" in it have every right to think me a dork if they ever find out that I do not wish to say "under God". The neat thing about NOT saying it in school, is that way no one ever knows if you are the kind of "dork" who would or would not say it. We eliminate the problem. That is neat, is it not?