Where is balance Academic priorities 292

I don't think the creationalists have analyzed what lies down the path of state religous teachings in a country as religously, ethnically and ideologically diverse as the US. With state religion the state has to choose a doctrine, and therein lies the unraveling of the state. What may work among the bible-thumpers while they try to coax a sliver of religion into state curricula will unravel rapidly.

Even Christians can have "internal" squabbles large enough to lead to decade long totalitarian wars. Your orthodoxy is my heresay. Even in my own family there is a deep mistrust of catholics. Mr Ratzinger is referred to as just that, or as the "Bishop of Rome".

Jesuits were consbreastutionally banned from Norway until 1956. And we are among the most peaceful of them all; even though Vikings gladly parttook in the Crusades.

Or consider what Gerry Adams and Ian Paisley would consider common ground. You cannot be wide and ecumenical, for where is the legal limit for a religion ? You will in that case be forced to include the Mosaic and Islamic faiths, and then there is a sliver open for Bahaii and others; and then the rest of the world's religions come along, including animists, scientologists, satanists and kibologists.

The closed route also contains it's own downfall. For what doctrine to choose ? Utah, Rome, Canterbury, Moscow? You will alienate more than half of your electorate anyhow.

Better leave to the emperor what rightfully his is.

-- mrr