On Thursday, October 31, 2002, at 09:26 AM, Craig Lalley wrote:
> No Wirt,
>
> It would be much better to send my children to the
> "government" schools, were the only thing they will
> learn is tolerance and zero-tolerance.
>
> One could argue, wrongfully so, that our fore fathers
> believed in a separation of church and state.
At this time, unless you're a historian, it no longer matters what our
forefathers believed in. What matters is what we believe in today.
For example, today one could argue (rightfully or wrongfully) that
religion in the form of believing in a supreme deity is a concept one
of whose main consequences (however unintentional) is the "separation
of humans into enemy camps".
FW
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