Reply #76: "If a majority of folks in a community want to have prayers in their schools [View All]

[Warren DeMontague]

our Constitution virtually requires that they be allowed to do so."

No, that is NOT what the Constitution says. The Constitution does NOT say that if a "majority" of people anywhere just fuckin' feel like it, they can deprive the minority of their constitutional rights- and mandatory prayer in schools are unconstitutional. The Supreme Court has said so, again, and again, and again.

I take it you don't agree with the Supreme Court?

"Free exercise of religion" doesn't mean hijacking government institutions (in this case, schools) to impose the religion or even faith-in-general of the 'majority' on citizens. Last time I checked, there wasn't a church shortage in this country.. so why does "God" NEED organized, led prayer- in PUBLIC school?

And speaking of which.. no, I don't "know" there's not an invisible man in the sky-- just like I don't "know" that there's not a giant, invisible, undetectable, odorless, colorless, 500 foot tall orangutan living on top of my house. By definition, if "he" is unprovable by physical, evidentiary means, I can't "know" that he's not there. But I *DO* know that there isn't a single, solitary shred of physical evidence corroborating the assertion. "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof" Ever heard that one? And in the case of "God", I also know that the folks most stridently claiming to speak for this individual in human history have been batting well-nigh close to 0 with their predictions about reality and the physical universe- on everything from the age of the Earth to whether the Sun goes around it or not. So you'll forgive me if I don't accept their assertions as, if you will, gospel truth.

As for the, um, accomplishments of Tantra... all I can suggest is that you try it, dude, and see for yourself.