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From: stanwyck@ihuxr.UUCP (Don Stanwyck)
Newsgroups: net.religion,net.politics
Subject: Re: School Prayer -- My personal opinions
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Date: Fri, 9-Mar-84 13:48:01 EST
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(*  This is admittedly more argumentative than the way I feel, I just 
    feel a need to present this issue.........			     *)


> From: riddle@ut-sally.UUCP (Prentiss Riddle)
> 
> I am a second-generation atheist.  My fiancee was raised as a Hindu.
> Can any supporter of a school prayer amendment explain to me how the
> prayer resulting from the proposed amendment could possibly avoid
> offending  o u r  religious sensibilities or those of our children?  If
> you agree that we would find the prayers objectionable, then can you
> explain to me why our right to freedom from religious interference by
> the state is somehow not worthy of defending simply because we do not
> conform to the religious beliefs of the majority?

While I am not sure I support the school prayer admendment (I, as a
practicing Christian, am not sure I could live with whatever non-sectarian
prayer was produced), I would like to ask Prentiss the following:

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.........

(QUICK, BRING THE ASBESTOS!!!!!!!!!!!)

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