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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]While the State (of which public schools are a part) cannot espouse one particular religion or force people to practice a religion, they can and do discuss religion and teach what various religions believe and various traditions and celebrations of religions. It is not the case that public schools are supposed to pretend religion doesn't exist (StayPuff Marshmallow Man help us if we graduated millions of kids with that level of ignorance), nor do individual students check their right to free speech at the door (which obviously does not include hate speech and a host of other litigated item and rights school kids don't have).  Hopefully your public school will teach your kids these basic tenets of civics.[/quote]

This is all very different from trying to convert a 4 year old but if you feel smart for two seconds I am so happy for you.

There’s is a very big difference in talking about origin stories versus telling a kid about the Bible, Christianity, and not acting like there are other options. I have told my kids that some people waste their time with religion. They know this. But they’re polite enough not to impose their beliefs on others.

And I’m sorry but if I was listening to books on tape that explained that religious people were idiots, I’m certain one of you intolerant types would be upset about that.

And if our school decides to teach about world religions and origin stories, they sure as $hit need to make sure to include a section where they also detail how many of us feel religion is just another oppressor.

PS- is it oh so Christian to call people names?  How... unsurprising.

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Hard to tell who you are responding to? There is neither intolerance, espousing of religion or name calling in the post you are responding to. [/quote]

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