on 17/7/02 11:16 am, vze3xykq at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Ronn Blankenship wrote: >> >>> >>> "Since I was a small boy, two states have been added to our country >>> and two words have been added to the pledge of Allegiance... UNDER >>> GOD. Wouldn't it be a pity if someone said that is a prayer and that >>> would be eliminated from schools too?" >>> -- Red Skelton >> >> Why would it be a pity? Does it make you feel comfortable that some 10% >> or more of the population is thus excluded by those two words? Why is >> it so important to indoctrinate our children if our country is so great? >> >> Doug > > Because the government would be sponsering a religion, atethism. (no > spellcheck)
Atheism (not so hard to spell is it?) is not a religion. Religion is 'belief in, recognition of, or an awakened sense of, a higher unseen controlling power or powers'. Atheism is *not* believing those things and is therefore very clearly *not* a religion. It is in the interest of those who promote the pernicious nonsense of religion to try and confuse the issue of course. -- William T Goodall [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk
