Festive Note - Nativity Plays

[vulgarweed]

> 
> <sigh> never discuss politics or religion. I should think it would 
be 
> a whole lot easier to integrate muslim children into a nativity 
play--
> afer all, they do recognize Jesus as a great prophet--than other 
> religions or for that matter kids from atheistic backgrounds.
> This is one thing that we're (Americans) good at, even if some of 
us 
> do get shrill and take things waaayyy too far over the top. You 
won't 
> see a Nativity Play in an American public school. Period.

> June, haven't you seen Love Actually yet? You'll love the end.



Huh, Whuuuuuh?

We had them *every friggin year* when I was a kid. Also Bible stories 
read to us every morning, like it or not (as the only atheist-family 
kid in town, believe me, I did NOT feel free to pipe up and object). 
It was only when my 3rd-grade teacher came out and told me that 
dinosaur bones were tricks of the devil that my dad called the school 
board and objected, and after that the months of death threats were 
so stressful that I wished I'd never said anything. Yes, this was all 
in a public school, in Virginia.

We are SO FAR away from that separation-of-church-and-state ideal in 
this country it's pathetic.

AV
(who wouldn't say the Pledge of Allegiance *ever*, although I did 
kind of like the angel costume)