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To: Fester Chugabrew
Actually, in deference to you, I adopted the word "nontheistic" as opposed to "atheistic" since the distinction is supposedly so important. I hardly use the word to define "everything in life but actual prayer," but I do use it to define the type of science that adheres to the shaping principle that God is beyond its purview.

You chose to use the word, but you have evidenced no comprehension of what is meant by it, or even of the meaning of the word "secular." And that's the reason why your opinions are so screwed up: the refusal to recognize that there are things in life that have no place within them for religious subjectivism.

If you think non-theistic science is so fine, then fund your own private schools so as to keep out the superstitious riff raff and keep your children pure from what you believe to be academically inferior teaching.

You've got it completely backwards (although I suspect you already know that.) Because the Constitution does not permit religious instruction to be masqueraded as science, if you want your children's education to be damaged in that fashion under the guise of your right as a parent to teach your religion, the onus is on you to establish your little madrassas to churn out the next generation of True Believers.

388 posted on 01/22/2006 7:40:19 AM PST by WildHorseCrash
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To: WildHorseCrash
"Non-theistic" or "secular" simply means setting aside religious considerations. Public schools are not obligated by law to be secular. Neither is science so obligated. Public schools are paid for, and comprised of, people of all faiths and lack thereof. As such, the government is obligated to recognize the public's various religious perspectives, whether it relates to science or sports, or anything in between. You are not entitled to wholly secular schools by law. You may certainly establish your own and pay for them yourself. The federal government is prohibited from stifling religious expression in any of these areas.
396 posted on 01/22/2006 10:02:12 AM PST by Fester Chugabrew
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