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  2. From: DGPAZ@CLEMSON.BITNET
  3. Newsgroups: bit.listserv.history
  4. Subject: Re: The Spanish/American War
  5. Message-ID: <HISTORY%92121608414590@PSUVM.PSU.EDU>
  6. Date: 16 Dec 92 13:39:00 GMT
  7. Sender: History <HISTORY@PSUVM.BITNET>
  8. Lines: 25
  9. Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
  10.  
  11. By "the teaching of Protestantism, or Roman Catholicism, or
  12. Christianity, by a governmental entity" being a violation of
  13. the establishment clause, I did not mean the academic
  14. teaching of the history/sociology &c. of religion. I believe
  15. that it is appropriate and indeed necessary for students in
  16. K-12 schools to learn about the role of religion in human
  17. history, literature, &c.
  18. Rather, I had in mind the conduct of services of worship in
  19. the schools, organized sectarian prayers in school hours led
  20. by school officials/teachers, and teaching the tenets of a
  21. specific religion or denomination as if those tenets were
  22. true and the tenets of other religions/denominations were
  23. false.
  24. Thus, e.g., it is a good and appropriate thing to teach
  25. the history of the Protestant Reformation. It is a bad
  26. and inappropriate thing to teach that the Prot. Ref.
  27. happened because God was restoring true biblical religion
  28. after the long night of medieval Catholic superstition.
  29. (The assumption being that Protestantism is true and
  30. Catholicism is false.)
  31.  
  32. Denis Paz
  33. Department of History
  34. Clemson University
  35. South Carolina, U.S.A.
  36.