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Subject: Re:sceular humanism banned etc.
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Date: Tue, 24-Sep-85 08:11:29 EDT
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>BULLSHIT. I was going to catholic schools then, and none of my left 
>handed peers were being beaten for it. 

If you had read my posting I guess you could imply that I meant *ALL* 
Catholics were beating their left handed children. So sorry. What I meant 
was that the two catholic schools I was familiar with (neither located 
in Maine, neither had teachers named Bottom, neither had a majority of 
Red headed teachers) separated geographically by 1500 miles or so, did 
in fact attempt to make left handed students right handed. I asked my 
mother about this and she told me this was the practice in the schools 
she attended, geographically located 600 miles from one of the schools 
and 1700 from the other, I assumed that this practice was more 
widespread than it obviously was (according to you). The other more 
humanitarian tortures that the good sisters thought up were also used 
for a variety of reasons, most of them having nothing to do with 
education.

 I do not believe that "christians" (fit your definition here) should 
have any more influence on education than any other group, possibly less 
because of their demostrated inablity to understand that some people do 
not subscribe to their superstitions, and do not want their children to 
have their education censored in order to make it acceptable to the 
christians.
 
 I am not prejudiced against any particular religion, I fell they are
*all* based on misinterpertation of available facts.

 Your refute of my posting, shows that *YOU* are in fact prejudiced in 
favor of Catholics, I wouldn't expect anthing other that that as you 
obviously were raised as one. As I was. Big deal.

Dave Bottom
DEC Augusta Maine
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