(September 17, 2019 at 7:49 pm)wyzas Wrote: School was 45 yrs ago for me. At that time removing religion/religious content from school never even entered anyone's mind here in the heartland. The few of us (openly atheist or just non christian) learned to ignore it. The extra drama that would have been created was just not worth it.
Yeah, from what I've come to understand, back then, the schools were afraid to talk about religion not because it was illegal or offensive to atheists, but because Christian denominations were all so divided that they would have stepped on someone's toes. Say or do something that supports Catholicism and the Baptists get all pissy about it. Acknowledge Methodists and the Jehovah's Witnesses get butthurt over it. Talk about Joseph Smith or Mormons at all and, well, all the other denominations throw a fit.
Then, some more pragmatic, politically minded church leaders managed to merge the churches into their America-first forms. Suddenly, instead of being divided by denomination, they're united under the group flag "Christian."
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"If you cling to something as the absolute truth and you are caught in it, when the truth comes in person to knock on your door you will refuse to let it in." ~ Siddhartha Gautama
"If you cling to something as the absolute truth and you are caught in it, when the truth comes in person to knock on your door you will refuse to let it in." ~ Siddhartha Gautama
