--- In [email protected], "shempmcgurk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "shempmcgurk" > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <snip> > > > The only problem was that you could replace the word "absolute" > > > that the Movement used in the book with the word "God" and it > > > would have meant exactly the same thing...so if the court > > > didn't catch the TMO on the puja they would have caught them on > > > the book which was set up in such a way that it DID violate the > > > separation of church and state. > > > > Yes and no. > > > > The appeals court judge who wrote a long concurring > > opinion, incidentally, discussed exactly this point. > > It's very interesting reading; it's been posted to > > alt.m.t a couple of times. If anybody wants to read > > it, let me know and I'll dig up the URLs. > > > > But you could be a hard-core atheist, in the sense of > > rejecting the forms of God proclaimed by the religions, > > and still find the idea of the Absolute entirely > > compatible with your beliefs. You can teach > > metaphysics, in other words, without actually > > teaching religion. > > What I found objectionable in the high school book was the way that > the absolute's attributes were declared as fact. If they had only > treated it like a scientific theory that had YET been proven > instead of as fact, then I think it would have passed muster.
(Scientific theories are never "proven," Shemp.) I never saw the book, so I don't know what the wording was that you object to. But TMers are supposed to be able to verify all of it for themselves in their own experience. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
