Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site unc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!akgua!mcnc!unc!bch From: bch@unc.UUCP (Byron Howes ) Newsgroups: net.religion,net.politics Subject: Re: School Prayer -- My personal opinions Message-ID: <6895@unc.UUCP> Date: Sat, 10-Mar-84 20:39:59 EST Article-I.D.: unc.6895 Posted: Sat Mar 10 20:39:59 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 11-Mar-84 06:50:57 EST References: <237@unmvax.UUCP> <1403@mit-eddie.UUCP> <1342@ut-sally.UUCP>, <972@ihuxr.UUCP> Organization: University of North Carolina Comp. Center Lines: 18 I don't see how the lack of organized school prayer can be interpreted as the forcing of atheistic beliefs on anyone. An organized atheistic move- ment would seem to me to require an explicit statement denying the existence of the Deity to be read aloud or in unison. If such were to be suggested I would be as opposed to it as I am to organized prayer in the classroom. The question asked by Don Stanwyck does point up a rather shady debating tactic often used by the Christian Right in various arguments. Somehow they assert every action to be a religious expression, if not christian then atheist or (*gasp*) humanist. I wonder what they make of my Friday pilgrimages to my favorite brauhaus.... -- "Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain!" Byron Howes UNC - Chapel Hill ({decvax,akgua}!mcnc!unc!bch)