Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site fortune.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!fortune!rpw3 From: rpw3@fortune.UUCP Newsgroups: net.religion Subject: Re: prayer in schools - (nf) Message-ID: <2740@fortune.UUCP> Date: Sun, 11-Mar-84 04:06:46 EST Article-I.D.: fortune.2740 Posted: Sun Mar 11 04:06:46 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 12-Mar-84 04:57:01 EST Sender: notes@fortune.UUCP Organization: Fortune Systems, Redwood City, CA Lines: 18 #R:cbscc:-191100:fortune:21900014:000:705 fortune!rpw3 Mar 10 20:32:00 1984 An editorial sometime back in Analog magazine (sorry, can't find the reference) suggested that maybe prayer in the schools wouldn't be so bad, for if, as the previous poster suggests, the purpose of school is to prepare the individual for adult life in society, one of the most important lessons to learn is when to keep your mouth shut and not stick your neck out into the social emotional meatgrinder of "being different" -- a lesson that Jews and Buddhists and Muslims and atheists need to learn early in a "Christian" society. :-) Rob Warnock UUCP: {sri-unix,amd70,hpda,harpo,ihnp4,allegra}!fortune!rpw3 DDD: (415)595-8444 USPS: Fortune Systems Corp, 101 Twin Dolphin Drive, Redwood City, CA 94065