--- In [email protected], "John M. Knapp, LMSW" <jmknap...@...> wrote: > > Hi, Curtis, > > I've been accused of having a Christian agenda as > long as I've been posting. It's as if TMers think > that only conservative Christians have a problem > with TM in the schools.
FWIW, the peson who just suggested you were a Christian is hardly a TM True Believer/TM movement type. But he does have a very finely tuned B.S. detector. > I think this is a historical prejudice: Christians > were the first people, way back in the 70s, to > question the Maharishi's teaching and movement. More like conservative Christians have consistently been in the forefront, in the beginning and over time. > TM has always prided itself on being compatible with > any religion and supporting any spiritual belief. > > It seems it should read, "We support all spiritual > traditions, but if you're a Christian, you must have > a hidden, evil agenda." Much more accurately, it's: "If you have an obvious agenda against TM, chances are you're a conservative Christian." <snip> > The issue we are raising with the web event is that > TM -- or any other religious organization -- has no > business teaching in public schools. The only > difference I can see between Christians trying to get > religion in to public schools and TM is that the > Christians are generally pretty upfront about their > values, beliefs, and teachings. BWAHAHAHAHA!!! As in the effort to have the science curriculum teach "Intelligent Design," for instance? > While TM keeps its agenda hidden. The TMO (and David Lynch, whose project this is) has a very open agenda of wanting as many people as possible, particularly young people, practicing TM. It does have its own quasi-religious agenda, but it's pretty unlikely that it will show up in this project. It's hard to imagine that if it did, there wouldn't be a huge outcry that would be the end of the project and probably any future projects of the kind.
