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To: Krowbar who wrote (14462)	12/27/1997 4:35:00 PM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Hi Del-OK-my final comment because I am not arguing against the separation of church and state; I am, in fact, very in favor of it. I think the extremes to which it has been taken, the defensiveness and lack of tolerance on both sides,and the necessity of removing even the really wonderful or just plain fun things so obsessively, is a sad commentary on us all. But it's nothing new historically. Also, it seems understandable if not right, that Christianity seems favored, given the proportion of Christians in our country. And atheism, by its very definition of unbelief-is a little hard to represent. Did you read Christine's link? The article mentions a school in the Bay area which has budgeted a large amount of money for a Kwanzaa celebration-the rationale being that that particular school is 35% African-American. Heck-that's not even a majority-so I don't know what the reasoning is...Like Christine, I think the idea of a tree with many symbols is appropriate and wouldn't it be amazing if a teacher were educated enough to speak knowledgeably on the meanings of each without pushing any one in particular? I hope by now it's obvious that I'm not arguing from any particular religious perspective, though I find the vitriol expressed against Christians to be as off-putting as the garbage spewed by the Moral Majority. What all of us seem to be saying is: "Believe what you want-just stay out of my face." The problem is it's sometimes so hard to know when you invade another's territory. Well-we can forget this until Easter now. (I do assume you're kidding about objecting to the humming of Silent Night in the grocery store line... or I'm in trouble.)