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Originally Posted by AngusJS
When the establishment clause is followed, everyone wins. I don't know why the fundies want to do away with a good thing.
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You answered your own question: because when it's followed, everyone wins. To fundies, that is
not a good thing, because as far as they're concerned they are right and everyone else is wrong and therefore nobody should be allowed to win except for them.
It's not just that they want to put "God" back in the schools and "religion" back into public life. They want to make their versions of "God" and "religion" the only ones that are accepted, endorsed, taught, and allowed.
This is what always amazes me about fundies. With regard to schooling, they are SO TERRIFIED that their pwecious chilluns might be exposed to anything that might in any way contradict fundamentalist teaching because ZOMG they will be led astray!! And yet they are at the same time absolutely adamant that their teaching is clearly and obviously the only right and true perspective and anyone who doesn't agree is morally or mentally deficient.
Don't tell me how "right" and valid your beliefs are, and then act like the only way to keep people from questioning them is to prevent exposure to any alternatives whatsoever. But that's exactly what they do.