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I Spit On Perfection
- May 16, 2006
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...but the cultural regard for religion is my point.
In the US, we're told by many on the left that the reason that we had laws prohibiting abortion, same sex marriage, marijuana use, etc... is because we don't adequately enforce the concept of "separation of church and state", and when going on their conquest to attempt to remedy that, they immediately turn their attention to crosses, Jesus pics, and nativity scenes. By giving the EU & UK examples, I was just merely pointing out that spending time focusing on inanimate objects might be a waste of their time since the UK-style of legislation and social policy seems to be exactly what they want, and the UK doesn't have any sort of separation...and they still allow nativity plays in schools, religious iconography on public property, etc...
The claim many in this thread are making is that they have a fear that a Picture in a hallway is a slippery slope into indoctrination. In all actuality, the main "offenders" in terms of indoctrination are parents. Nearly 70% of people end up being part of the same religion as their parents.
If secular activists are so worried about Children being coerced into religion, they should know that the childrens' parents are the ones who are doing that, not a picture on a wall.
The fact is, a great deal of teh motivations for such repressive laws are religious in nature, though not all of them. That's the motivation for that attitude, but it isn't something exclusive to the left, technically speaking. We can't reduce this purely to people wanting to give government more power, when secularism is as much about keeping people free of unnecessary government intervention, which can manifest in many ways apart from policy in an explicit manner.
Slippery slope is the term you used, I didn't say it constituted indoctrination by any stretch: I said it was entanglement in religion that was unnecessary to context
Children aren't solely influenced by their parents in making choices about religion: most of my apostasy was because of educators and general education that I got, not anything from my parents, who probably would've preferred that I still be Christian, even nominally, instead of outright nontheist and even clashing with relatives on rare occasion when it comes to such issues, though it's mostly on one side of the family that is more obnoxious about it.
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