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

To: Sidney Reilly who wrote (26951)	12/13/1998 2:41:00 PM
From: E	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Just so long as an atheist teacher can keep on his or her desk critiques of the Bible, and books in praise of reason, or any book he or she chooses, I support the right of Christian teachers to choose the objects that shall reside on their desks. It is disingenuous to the point of Clintonesquery [wonder if that will show up red on the spellcheck? <g>] to take the position that the reason it is so allfired important that the Christian children in the public schools do their praying not only there amongst the non-Christian children, but audibly, is not motivated by the desire to proselytize. It is the same reason Christian teachers want that bible visible on their desks and want to invite their public school students to church off school grounds. It's about proselytizing and making yourselves feel just excellent because you have the power to create the credulist Christian ambiance you are determined to have in the public school. And I do believe that the minute the children whose views differ from those of your children manage to make themselves heard, or atheist teachers extend the same invitation Christian teachers do, we shall see something interesting and yet not surprising. (This is if any atheist teachers are brave enough to risk arousing the hatred of the Christian parents, and atheist children are brave enough to express themselves openly to Christian ones.)