Pam Hartley

Religion occasionally comes up in our local inclusive homeschooling group.
Sometimes new people will assume everyone's Christian (I've never seen
anyone of any other religion or non-religion assumes this in the same way,
which is one difference already). Usually it's just a matter of reminding or
informing them the group is inclusive and they either stay or go away once
they have that information, but there are a few atheists and agnostics in
our group who get *really* upset about the assumptions. I'm sure they've had
enough bad experiences that it's pardonable, but it does make them look
over-reactive (to most, including the other atheists and the Christian-Lites
like me <g>) in context.

Pam

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From: SandraDodd@...
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [AlwaysLearning] Re: Re: Stepping in the hornet's nest and
intro
Date: Mon, Dec 17, 2001, 1:38 PM


<< Maybe you could tell your atheist members you'll keep praying that
they'll learn some manners. >>

Maybe. But if those manners involved crossing themselves when driving in
front of a church in a totally Catholic town, or saying "Praise Jesus" or
"God willing," that would be past manners to dishonesty.

I don't know what the atheists at Pam's meetings are saying, but I've been
to
some of those meetings, knowing the theme of the group was diversity, and
figured there were various religions. I don't remember being there when
religion was discussed. I hope it's as rare for real as it seems to me from
a handful of visits.



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