Sunday, February 18, 2007

They Said It! #7

This is a long one, but....whoa!!!! I about fell out of my chair when I read it. Please, read it all the way through and then spend some time in prayer.


"I am convinced that the battle for humankind's future must be waged and won in the public school classroom by teachers who correctly perceive their role as proselytizers of a new faith: a religion of humanity....These teachers must embody the same selfless dedication as the most rabid fundamentalist preachers, for they will be ministers of another sort, utilizing a classroom instead of a pulpit to convey humanist values in whatever subject they teach, regardless of the education level- preschool day care or a large state university. The classroom must and will become an arena of conflict between the old and new - the rotting corpse of Christianity, together with all its adjacent evils and misery, and the new faith of humanism, resplendent in its promise of a world in which the never realized Christian ideal of ' love thy neighbor' will finally be achieved."

From an article in The Humanist titled "A New Religion for a New Age"

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