(July 28, 2010 at 4:59 pm)DR7164 Wrote: Any *intellectual* atheist won't sit there (unprovoked) and preach to you about your stupidity for believing that a man in the sky is controlling your actions.
The problem with many school districts, however, is that they try to shove a particular brand of faith down your throats. In many areas in the US, it can really hurt your career if you're a teacher and you admit that you're an atheist and try, in any way, to teach a more secular view instead of tip-toeing around the controversial issues (such as teaching evolution in biology).
The idea of establishing atheist schools sounds to me like a freedom from that kind of thing, but perhaps 'atheism school' is the wrong term - looking for more of a secular school establishment that avoids matters of faith altogether.
That sounds like something worth doing, in my opinion.
