RE: Establishment of Government Religion?

["Doug Jones" <credenda@moscow.com>]

Ted Moffett wrote:

> To give a specific example: Do you think Christianity should be
mandated to
> be taught in the public schools as the official religion of the USA?
I
> think this would be an excellent test of whether you support a true
> government mandated RULE by the Christian religion.  Or do you support
the
> teaching off all religions in the public schools, assuming you would
support
> the teaching of any religion at all.

Ted, you apparently missed a long laborious discussion on this topic
earlier in the summer. You may want to check the archives so as not to
punish the list more. The short answer for some of us, no, no mandated
Christianity in the public schools because the government should not be
in the public school business in the first place. Education is
inherently religious, and the current "neutral" Enlightenment worldview
it assumes should not be imposed on other religions either. 

Doug Jones