Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!parsec!ctvax!uokvax!emjej From: emjej@uokvax.UUCP Newsgroups: net.religion Subject: Re: Re: School Prayer -- My personal opi - (nf) Message-ID: <6187@uiucdcs.UUCP> Date: Wed, 14-Mar-84 23:28:15 EST Article-I.D.: uiucdcs.6187 Posted: Wed Mar 14 23:28:15 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 16-Mar-84 00:34:35 EST Lines: 28 #R:ihuxr:-97200:uokvax:8300047:000:1269 uokvax!emjej Mar 13 10:14:00 1984 /***** uokvax:net.religion / ihuxr!stanwyck / 1:30 pm Mar 11, 1984 */ (* This is admittedly more argumentative than the way I feel, I just feel a need to present this issue......... *) Is it possible that your religious belief, a belief in "non-God", and your expectation that the state promote your religion, might be insensitive to my religion, and in fact discriminatory against it? I haven't really thought about this, but the idea struck me and I couldn't argue myself out of asking......... /* ---------- */ Good people, there is a distinction to be made between not promoting any religion and promoting atheism/agnosticism. Current American public schools do neither, what with the various activities they conduct for some religious holidays, and various things not taught because of pressure from the ignorant (e.g. evolution). I still recall the time my first year Spanish class was dragged over to see a movie containing transparent Christian allegory. If I had my druthers, there wouldn't be government-sponsored public schools, but a less ambitious hope would be that the schools that currently exist at most enumerate the stands of various religions where appropriate (as opposed to in science classes, for example). James Jones