"Pooh Bear" wrote in message
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I don't want the government to promote any religous view.
I thought the US constitution forbade that in fact.
It does. But it doesn't require the level of separation that some people
seem to think it does, in fact it doesn't require it at all. The phrase
separation of church and state came from somewhere else.
I've been an atheist most of my adult life, but the level that both sides of
the church/state debate are willing to go to, bothers me.
Removing religion from all public places is overkill and smacks of
intolerance, especially from the left who always want us to "celebrate our
diversity." They mean, as long as you're not religious.
When I grew up, there were displays that had all the typical manger, wise
man, camel stuff and we sang Christmas songs in school and all the parents
came to hear us do our off key versions. We said the Pledge of Allegiance
and some people said under God and some didn't. It didn't require a
lawsuit, people just did as they felt.
It's gotten so far the other way now that one city in Texas, Plano I
believe, has a school district where students are not allowed to wear red
and green! That's not separation, that's just ****ing nuts.
I don't agree with any idea of a supreme being, unless maybe it's Sol
Marantz :-)
In some ways these NG's are becoming or have become as polarized as the
whackos in the church/state fight, or as the religious/secular warriors.
There's the side that understands how things work and what is audible and
the other side that thinks there's magic if you buy the right wires or
choose the designer caps for your xover. The only thing sadder and stupider
than the debate over tubes vs. SS or blind listening vs. sighted is the
singularly unflattering idea that in the 21st Century people who own Hi-Fi
equipment that uses laser beams can still believe in people rising from the
dead and ascending to Heaven.
I know return you ro our regular scheculed mayhem.