Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 exptools 1/6/84; site ihuxr.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!we13!ihnp4!ihuxr!stanwyck From: stanwyck@ihuxr.UUCP (Don Stanwyck) Newsgroups: net.religion,net.politics Subject: Re: School Prayer -- My personal opinions Message-ID: <972@ihuxr.UUCP> Date: Fri, 9-Mar-84 13:48:01 EST Article-I.D.: ihuxr.972 Posted: Fri Mar 9 13:48:01 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 10-Mar-84 14:13:08 EST References: <237@unmvax.UUCP> <1403@mit-eddie.UUCP> <1342@ut-sally.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL Lines: 34 (* 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!!!!!!!!!!!) -- ________ ( ) Don Stanwyck @( o o )@ 312-979-3062 ( || ) Cornet-367-3062 ( \__/ ) ihnp4!ihuxr!stanwyck (______) Bell Labs @ Naperville, IL