Re: Kansas School Board

"Marty" <this.address@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Somewhere around Tue, 16 Aug 2005 23:13:05 EDT, while reading
> rec.humor.jewish, I think I thought I saw this post from "Mordechai
> Housman"
> <housman@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
>
>>This so-called joke seems more ANTI-Jewish than Jewish.
>>
>>Or at least it is anti-Judaism.
>>
> Personally, I thought the opposite. Freedom of religion is something Jews
> have fought for, and it should not stop with us - we, of all people,
> should
> realize that freedom of religion should extend to all religions, even
> those
> who believe in an alternate theory of creation.
>
> Personally, I've never felt that the two theories were necessarily
> opposed;
> after all, evolution only teaches the methods - we had to have something
> to
> evolve from. Perhaps the creator planted the "seed", and the seed evolved
> to mankind; the bible says G-d created man, but it doesn't say how, or
> really how long it took. Unless you take the 7 days literally as 24 hour
> days.
>
> But then, my thinking has always been a bit "different". :-)

Ah, so you agree that belief in evolution is a religion. So do I.

And I also agree that there should be freedom of religion. And therefore the
fact that millions of people believe that G-d created the universe WITHOUT
using evolution is also true, and should ALSO be taught in schools, along
with the reasons these people believe that, and it should be taught at least
as convincingly as evolution is taught.

Most people who want evolution taught do NOT want students to have an open
mind. They want evolution taught as PROVEN and unassailable FACT, which it
is not.

When one country in Georgia wanted stickers put on science books that
students should approach the theory of evolution "with an open mind, and be
aware that it is only a theory," many evolutionists complained. Evidently,
they are against open minds. They want to do what they accuse us of wanting
to do: indoctrinate children without giving them any free choice in what to
believe. They want to hide from children what in many cases their own
parents believe to be true, because, you see, only the evolutionists have a
right to believe that their religion is true. We creationists DON'T have
that right. It has ben taken away from us, and they keep trying to take
more. Where the Founding Fathers wanted no established religion forcing
their beliefs on others, they have forced their opinion that there may not
BE religious beliefs.

So don't lecture me about freedom of religion. That's completely
hypocritical.

.

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