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From: bch@unc.UUCP (Byron Howes )
Newsgroups: net.religion,net.politics
Subject: Re: School Prayer -- My personal opinions
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Date: Sat, 10-Mar-84 20:39:59 EST
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Posted: Sat Mar 10 20:39:59 1984
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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
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