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Originally posted by gregor@Dec 22 2005, 07:14 AM
they came to power here.... :not_ok:
Currently they are held back by contitution. Which if they want to change need support form other side as well. But basically they are doing everything possible to bring religion education in school.
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they came to power here.... :not_ok:
They can and have come to power in many countries. Let's not forget that the British monarchy took its role as head of the Anglican Church very seriously until comparatively recently, and that one famous prime minister said that if it came to being on the side of the angels or the monkeys, he'd be on that of the angels. The Spanish, Polish and Italian governments have always been very close to the Roman Catholic Church, while the Greek Orthodox Church is the recognized state religion; if you enter Greece as, let's say, a Methodist minister with the idea of setting up a Methodist church, you have to get the approval of the Greek Orthodox priest who has a local church to do so.
These things in the US come and go in waves of influence. But it's important to remember that on every previous occasion when a creationist law was passed on any level and brought to the state judiciary, it's been thrown out. Not only that, but in the case of Dover, Pennsylvania, the judge who just did the throwing out a few days ago was unusually harsh and thorough in his scathing report on the attempt to replace evolution with "intelligent design" (as the creationists call it) in the classroom. That judge--who by the way is a devout, church-going Christian--said this was a hypocritical, backdoor attempt to get religion in the schools by people who knew perfectly well it was bad science.
And let's not forget that the Dover school board that enacted that creationist agenda in local schools was elected for other reasons entirely. What's more, it had already been thrown out in 2004.