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To: Slagle who wrote (68337)	9/2/2005 3:46:20 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 74559

<Their favorite target for the expression of their atheism is the public school system. As the majority of parents do not want their children lectured about the wonders of atheism,> Slag, that's probably because the religious cranks try to inflict their superstitious beliefs about Santa onto people who disagree that Santa is really looking after us and used his intelligent design elves to make leprosy, warts and leeches. I don't think atheism is a belief. The absence of a belief isn't a belief. All of us are completely unaware of the tree falling in the forest, so it's not that we deny it fell, it's just that it's outside our range of perception so we don't believe it and go about our business in other ways than bowing in the direction of a tree which might, or might not, have fallen. Refusing to bow doesn't mean we believe in an anti-belief. We are just busy doing other things. I thought those who don't want a whole bunch of religious ideology pushed at their offspring think there's plenty of time for acolytes to proselytize to their own offspring after school. There are many religions, superstitions, iridology, astrology and other odd ideas. If those superstitions all got school time, children wouldn't have any 3D time for actually observable reality. Leave superstitions for the superstitious and observable reality for teaching children. There is PLENTY of observable reality to be going on with in 3D and children better know quite a lot about it. Okay, I will cease and desist on superstition because I know it goes nowhere. Mqurice