> In related news, my suggestion for the American atheist movement would be to
> learn from the British experience. We've had a compulsory "Act of Worship
> [...] broadly Christian in character" every day in schools since the 1950s.
> The resulting tired, lifeless and unenthusiastic presentation of religion to
> developing young minds has ensured that the current generation are damned
> nearly Godless.
I think there is something to this. I'm the oldest of four kids in my family. The three oldest kids spent some amount of time attending Lutheran K-12 schools. I turned out anti-religious and non-religious. The other two sisters who went to Lutheran schools go to church occasionally. My youngest sister--who went to public schools her entire life--is the big religious nut right now.
> cheers and a jolly merry Christmas to those few remaining lbo-talk readers who
> are neither lurkers from Frontpage magazine nor actual Nazis. You know who you
> are.
I'm a godless, atheistic, Taoist anti-religious Homerist who enjoys Christmas every other year. Merry Christmas to you too.
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