Letter: Religion in the classroom

The editorial cited above was just the right editorial to publish on Christmas Day! Senator David Farnsworth's ridiculous proposal that "Intelligent Design" should be taught as an alternative idea in Arizona classrooms alongside legitimate science topics is patently absurd. It is also quite offensive to those of us who check the "No religion" box on the religion surveys, and between 22 and 28 percent of us Americans do so.

Intelligent design is just another absurd story the Christians are foisting on the rest of us. Christianity is a large cult, as are other religions, and not one of the Christian story time fables (The virgin birth, the resurrection, the concepts of heaven and hell, etc. etc.) has any place whatsoever in public school classrooms. Jefferson and Madison created the genius idea of the separation of Church and State, and that is how it ought to be.

Robert Lanning

Downtown

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