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<blockquote data-quote="njdriver" data-source="post: 2676336" data-attributes="member: 4596">Maybe some do, but you continue to miss my point.I&#039;m just fine with Christianity not being taught in public schools!!!&nbsp;However, I DO have, and will continue to have a problem with ANY group that fights to be legally ruled a religion, actually gets that legal recognition, to then turn around and expect not to be held to the same prohibitions Christianity and other religions are held to when it comes to public education.I understand you don&#039;t agree with my view, and I&#039;m fine with that too. I just don&#039;t want you or anyone else to mis-characterize my position in regard to this issue.&quot;Secular education =/= secular humanism.&quot;Look, we can go round and round and round ad nauseum, so I&#039;ll give it one last go.If secular education contains even SOME of the tenets contained in the latest iteration of the Humanist Manifesto, AND THE GROUP THAT AUTHORED THAT MANIFESTO FOUGHT FOR AND ULTIMATELY RECEIVED LEGALLY RECOGNIZED AND CONSTITUTIONALLY PROTECTED STATUS AS A RELIGION, then there is simply no way around the reality that what may have once been considered secular has, by reason of that same legal Constitutional recognition, been transformed into religious dogma.I&#039;m aware the onus detractors of this argument posit is related to science, but that is just one of many outlined parameters the AHA has purposefully chosen to delineate as part of their overall credo.They got what they asked for, now they should be legally forced to live with what they asked for. </blockquote>

[QUOTE="njdriver, post: 2676336, member: 4596"] Maybe some do, but you continue to miss [B]my[/B] point. [SIZE=6]I'm just fine with Christianity not being taught in public schools!!![/SIZE] However, I DO have, and will continue to have a problem with ANY group that fights to be legally ruled a religion, actually gets that legal recognition, to then turn around and expect not to be held to the same prohibitions Christianity and other religions are held to when it comes to public education. I understand you don't agree with my view, and I'm fine with that too. I just don't want you or anyone else to mis-characterize my position in regard to this issue. [I][COLOR=#660000]"Secular education =/= secular humanism."[/COLOR][/I] [COLOR=#000000]Look, we can go round and round and round ad nauseum, so I'll give it one last go. If secular education contains even SOME of the tenets contained in the latest iteration of the Humanist Manifesto, AND THE GROUP THAT AUTHORED THAT MANIFESTO FOUGHT FOR AND ULTIMATELY RECEIVED LEGALLY RECOGNIZED AND CONSTITUTIONALLY PROTECTED STATUS AS A RELIGION, then there is simply no way around the reality that what may have once been considered secular has, by reason of that same legal Constitutional recognition, been transformed into religious dogma. I'm aware the onus detractors of this argument posit is related to science, but that is just one of many outlined parameters the AHA has purposefully chosen to delineate as part of their overall credo. They got what they asked for, now they should be legally forced to live with what they asked for. [/COLOR] [/QUOTE]

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