Re: Government Schools and Atheism

[Daniel Kronemann <kron4155@uidaho.edu>]

Visionaries,

John's email inspired many responses.  The general opposing sentiment to
his view were in condemnation of atheism.  Why were so many people
offended at someone suggesting you might be atheism?  If you aren't
atheist, thats fine.  But it seemed that many people's opposing response
to John's email as well as John's email itself and those in support all
had the common assumption that atheism is bad.  Why is the assertation
there isn't a God so evil?  Is it not just as valid as any assertation
there is a God?

Daniel



On Tue, 4 Jun 2002, John Harrell wrote:

> When someone says they are atheist, they say they dont believe in
> the God or a god or gods. For the atheist, the removal of God from
> the system is what they desire and is what they want to achieve.
> When the government school system has removed God it has now
> become the atheist dream. For children who are placed into that
> system for over 13 years, during their most impressionable time of
> life, they will learn to become practicing atheists, if not
> actually professing atheists. And it amazes me when good Christian
> parents see their child graduate, move out, and then wonder why
> their child has ceased to follow in the faith.
>
> The government school system promotes atheism, not Christianity.
> The government school system is not trying to be all to everyone
> because many recent court decisions have decided that God must be
> removed - and as described above, this is atheism.
>
> So why should my hard earned money go to support a system that
> teaches atheism? And why do Christians place their children in
> a system designed to destroy their faith?
>
> This system is not tolerant.
>
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