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From: bch@unc.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.religion
Subject: Re: teaching religion to children - (nf)
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Date: Wed, 15-Jun-83 23:11:02 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jun 15 23:11:02 1983
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By all means send your kids to xxxxxxx school!  Kids are relatively impervious
to the "higher" philosophical concepts involved in religious teachings, but
learn well from the stories and the parables.  Look at it this way...our
early religious training, of whatever variety, is one of the relatively constant
areas of cultural experience.  We all know the stories whether we believe them
or not and they have even formed a common base of understanding (such as it
may be) in this forum.  The values of truthfulness, loyalty, honesty, respect,
...the essentials of right and wrong seem universal to all faiths.   One can
hardly go wrong in giving a child this kind of fundamental training.

Don't be too upset, however, if your child does not always follow the teachings
of the church.  This seems to be the way of the world.

					Byron Howes
					UNC - Chapel Hill