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Posted by WillD on Tue Jan 4 12:12:39 2005, in response to Re: No, It's the Liberal Secularists, posted by Verbal Kent on Sat Dec 25 21:51:29 2004. The seculiberalists would eliminate any mention in the history books and literature of anything that had to do with religion.That's not what all this is about. It's not about a revisionist history wherein we can all blindly pretend that there was no religion. After all, if you eliminate religion from history, then how do you explain all the atrocities that have been committed in the name of 'God'? I don't think the human psyche could stand to have all that guilt placed squarely on our shoulders. Teach about religion, teach children the good parts and the bad parts, don't leave stuff out, however it must be done without any implied favoring of one religion or another. Also so long as you're teaching public school kids, there should be no celebration of any religious holidays. Instead of your paranoid fantasies wherein the black helicopters come for your bibles to burn them, it's really just about not having our Government sponsor one religion over another. A nativity scene on the lawn of a town hall is a clear sponsorship of Christianity by that governmental body. Adding a Menorah, Kwanzaa Candles, Festivus pole, or whatever next to it does not make it better, it makes it worse. Now the government is implicitly telling you "these religions are ok, but if you choose not to practice a religion, then that's not okay". Of course people will find that offensive, you're insane if you think everyone who doesn't believe what you believe will cowtow to your opinion and just keep their mouth shut over such an obvious affront to 200 years of judicial rulings. |
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