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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Sidney Reilly who wrote (26942)	12/13/1998 10:51:00 AM
From: E	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

So Bob, are you saying that I have no right to go into the school and teach your child atheism, just as you have no right to teach mine credulism? I hope so. I am now assuming that you believe the teachers have no right to promulgate your religious tenets over mine in the schools. Would you confirm that I am right about that? It would be very reassuring to me. I am reading what you say to mean that you feel it is important that the children be able to do their prayers audibly in the public public schools, but that you agree teachers should not lead or encourage these denominational prayers; and also that atheist children should be able audibly to speak their hearts and minds on these matters during this set-aside period, too-- not only Christian children. Can you reassure me, also, on that point? I am beginning to be less suspicious of your motives. If my child may expose the texts I supply him to your child on Tuesday, after the Monday on which your child exposes mine to the texts you supply her, that sounds like the first amendment in action to me. Yes, it is a tenet of some people's atheism, my brother in law's, for instance, to convert people who believe in God to their point of view; and it used to be mine. I have changed. Now I only want to convert people's children to my point of view who want to convert my children to theirs. Especially in public venues, like the schools, supported by my taxes, where my child must be in attendance. I am glad I have your unequivocal answer, if I have understood correctly, that each of us may supply our children with texts about God and Jesus and religion in general, and that they may expose their fellow students to their beliefs, and that Christian teachers may influence these proceedings no more than may atheist teachers. I sincerely hope not to hear any Clintonesque maneuverings that attempt to come up with an argument to the end of letting your children preach to mine, but not mine to yours. I don't know why I would even be so suspicious. I guess it is just that my observation has been that Christians will go to almost any lengths to seek advantage in the promulgation of their beliefs. I'm sorry if my suspiciousness has offended you.