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To: Steve Lokness who wrote (216459)	8/21/2007 6:09:44 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793996

You think that! But you don't think the right tries to push through their agenda? ID or or any of the things that are important to them? Guess I should have added again that I see the left succeeding. Yes, I'm sure conservatives sometimes do try to get their kind of folks on school boards. But the left has the educational establishment working for it and has legal groups like the ACLU to bully school boards and liberal judges willing to give the ACLU clout. They do so consistently by getting their members onto school boards. The fundamentalist christians are extremely active - they admit that. They are active because to them it is their religion. Most conservatives (including me) don't get involved in things like this, though they're not happy about the way the schools are. I've never experienced a politicized school board election anywhere I live. There are nut cases on the left that do indeed try to get you to read weird books about gay animals (or whatever it is you said they are reading) but they are just that - nut cases. To suggest there are people out there pushing atheism as a religion or gay life styles as a part of school curriculum is false. Our perception is different. Atheism is not a religion in the sense it doesn't need to convince or convert as many religions - including the fundamentalist christians - do. It's agnostic in that respect! Because it's agnostic, there is seldom a need to or the energy to push it into schools. Atheism is a religious viewpoint. And some atheists clearly do work very hard at convincing and converting others to their view. To assert otherwise, how would one explain people like Madalyn Murray OHair, Richard Dawkins (who recently established a foundation to promote atheism in schools), Daniel Dennett, groups like american atheists, the humanist societies, publications like Skeptic magazine and websites like the ones below: skeptic.com www.blasphemychallenge.com/ www.infidels.org Personally I find the (pseudo-)scientific people like Dawkinns, Dennett, Shermer the most threatening because they're unjustifiably respected as scientific voices, which gives them great media and legal clout.