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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why isn't this against the law? This group is encouraging children to bring their (overwhelmingly Christian) bibles to school on Thursday. I thought there was supposed to separation of church and state in this country. Now were going to have kids trot out their bibles to show (and imply) that other kids (say Jewish, or other religions) are wrong?

If I had school-age kids, I'd keep them home that day. ([b]I'm Jewish.[/b])

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Sorry you feel so horrible about yourself. Get over it.

--an atheist[/quote]
That's quite an unfounded (and rude) assumption. I happen to think I follow a wonderful religion (hence my decision to follow it).

But I've also been on the receiving end of conversion attempts, and while most people are respectful, I've run into some hostile people who have told me some pretty scary things about what happens to Jews after they die. While I have the wherewithal to laugh it off (internally), an elementary school child does not. We should not be setting up opportunities for children to tell other children that their religion is wrong, and this bible school day opens a path to that. [/quote]

I don't know, PP. I am also Jewish and sensitive to this issue. I would flatly oppose the school sponsoring this event or giving it a forum. But if individual kids do it on their own time -- like at lunch or after school -- even if the idea was suggested by an outside group, I do not really see the harm. Kids have to learn to cope with dissent eventually. Unless you live in a majority Jewish area like parts of Long Island, most Jewish kids are quite aware from a young age that they are not in the majority. You can't protect them forever. Better to give them tools to protect themselves. It's like anything else someone tells you at school -- a scary story, warnings about kidnappers, Santa Claus, tooth fairy, whatever. You come home and ask your parents, and they correct or explain whatever you were told.

I don't know how kids of different religions can be expected to get along and respect each others' view if they are protected from ever hearing about views that are different. And for what it's worth, I did not grow up in a very Jewish area, and in fact went to a Christian day school. So I was exposed to this from the age of 6. I survived my classmates' sidelong looks and questions about why I did not kneel in Chapel or recite the Lord's Prayer or celebrate Christmas, etc etc. If anything it made me identify more strongly as a Jew.[/quote]

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