An amazon customer review of "Myth of Separation" includes this choice statement:
My fellow Christians, why must the church seek to coerce the moral decision-making of others? Why must we rely on government-instituted schools to teach morality, enforce prayer and indoctrinate religious teachings? The very people who tout the importance of "family" are passing off their responsibilities. Shouldn't the "family" be responsible for moral training? Isn't it "legalistic" to resort to political power and legislation to enforce morality?
but yeah, will the fundies start to use their variations of history (since history isn't nearly so clearly defined as science is) as their new means of indoctrination? will there be a legal way to stop it? The Lemon test applies to science, but not beyond that. A larger decision will have to make a Lemon-like test for all fields of education.
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Date: 2005-12-20 07:49 pm (UTC)My fellow Christians, why must the church seek to coerce the moral decision-making of others? Why must we rely on government-instituted schools to teach morality, enforce prayer and indoctrinate religious teachings? The very people who tout the importance of "family" are passing off their responsibilities. Shouldn't the "family" be responsible for moral training? Isn't it "legalistic" to resort to political power and legislation to enforce morality?
but yeah, will the fundies start to use their variations of history (since history isn't nearly so clearly defined as science is) as their new means of indoctrination? will there be a legal way to stop it? The Lemon test applies to science, but not beyond that. A larger decision will have to make a Lemon-like test for all fields of education.