The Young Turks

As a native, though ex-pat, Californian, I would like to take this opportunity to thank Florida for existing. Whenever someone refers to the land of "fruits and nuts" these days it is more likely than not to be our phallic shaped state.

instead of allowing our sunday schools to indoctrinate the children with a single narrow view of religion as taught by religious people, I propose that they teach viable alternative belief systems, and obviously the government should mandate this similar to what it's attempting to do in the science classrm in FL and KS and elsewhere. It just wouldn't be right to exclude valid alternative interpretations of the bible. As a practicing scientist I concede here for the sake of argument that the founding fathers made God the center of our government--hey it says so on the penny! But they didn't specify which, and that creates a problem.

I hear religious fundamentalists say all the time that science is just as much a religion as anything else. It is merely a belief system clothed as something else.

I must now find myself in an awkward position because this irrefutable argument turns my whole world on its head. I must come to a conclusion. Science and religion truly ARE equal. There is NO DIFFERENCE between them. To be fair and balanced, and to balance out the teaching of the alternative view of evolution, "Intelligent Design", we must have the government mandate the teaching of the scientific method in churches across the country, regardless of denomination. Special emphasis should be placed on sunday school.

This is the best way to encourage cross denominational and ecumenical ministry between the religion of science and the religion of religion. I am happy indeed that the republicans have gotten a head start teaching us about the religion of government.