tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1785248711810287089.post1143432129137919353..comments2023-10-26T14:24:47.978+01:00Comments on (Old) Musings of a Quaker Witch: The New AtheistsMorganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05201286586062722169noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1785248711810287089.post-35896785380103598932007-06-14T15:45:00.000+01:002007-06-14T15:45:00.000+01:00The author makes several points that I hope are ta...The author makes several points that I hope are taken up by others.I agree that too often both atheists and conservative Christians assume that everyone is either a conservative fundamentalist (or quasi-fundamentalist) believer or an agnostic/atheist liberal (which annoys heck out of me, since I'm a liberal *because* of my Quaker Christian social-justice beliefs.Also, I'm glad he brought up the fact that many believers want to restore separation of religion and the state. I'm all for teaching religions in public classrooms--note that plural!--as part of history, social science, literature, art and music religions are virtually inseparable. But prayer in homeroom? Whose prayers? How does one make public room for Evangelical Christian praise songs, Quaker silence, pagan ritual, Catholic morning prayer, Jewish, Buddhist, and other prayer traditions, and don't forget the agnostic kid playing a computer game or doing pleasure reading? Hard, interesting things to think about, and then to act on...Beth C.https://www.blogger.com/profile/04698244778073905551noreply@blogger.com