Re: Bug#138541: ITP: debian-sanitize (was Re: inappropriate racist and other offensive material)
On Mon, 18 Mar 2002, Roland Bauerschmidt wrote:
> Craig Dickson wrote:
> > I know people sometimes take the separation of church and state just a
> > little too far here in the US
>
> Actually, in my subjective opinion, church still is rather closely
> linked to government in the US.
Yet in Europe church and state are linked in ways even the average
conservative here would find astonishing. Some countries have an
established state church and even the ones that don't give financial aid
or collect taxes on behalf of churches (and increasingly mandirs, mosques
etc. too.)
I grew up in a village in England (where the Queen is the head of the
Anglican Church.) It was the kind of place where the nearest
thing we had to an alternative religion was Methodism. Religious
Education was a mandatory subject. School assemblies included Christian
hymns and prayers, and Christmas, Easter, the patron saints day etc. were
celebrated.
This experience has convinced me both sides on the American prayer in
schools debate are bogus. Having all that Christian content in my
education didn't make the slightest impression on my beliefs. (Or to the
English who might go to church for special occasions but are otherwise
completely irreligious) But it didn't turn me into a self-loathing,
oppressed victim either.
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Jaldhar H. Vyas <jaldhar@braincells.com>
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