"HeyBub" wrote in message
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Anyone who can't live with their kids not praying for the five or six
hours a day they're at school can pony up the money for a private
religious education. And I'll happily drop a dime on them with the
ASPCA concerning their goat slaughtering.

I'd be for that if they didn't have to also pay local school taxes.

By that reasoning someone with no kids shouldn't have to pay school taxes,
somebody without a car shouldn't be taxed to pay for roads, and somebody
with his own pool shouldn't have his taxes go towards building a public
swimming pool. Public schools and public roads and public pools are of
benefit to society as a whole, it isn't a matter of each taxpayer being able
to opt-out of any tax he figures doesn't benefit him personally. However in
some places you can get your school taxes moved to a school system you want
to support, e.g. places with separate Roman Catholic schools where you can
send your kids if you feel unable to burden them with enough guilt at home.

This all goes back to St. Carlin's 11th Commandment: Thou shalt keep
thy religion to thyself.

But some religions teach otherwise. In Christianity, it is a positive duty
to proselytize.

That's their problem; no reason for anyone else to put up with it.

Those who are prevented from so doing have a legitimate beef.

As do those who insist their faith allows them multiple child brides--yet
somehow I have a tough time working up much sympathy for them.

In Islam, it is a pillar of the faith that all be brought into submission
or die.

Yet many millions of Muslims manage to get through life ignoring that
doctrine, just as many millions of Christians feel no need to emulate Old
Testament slaughtering of non-believers. It is a mark of the advance of
civilization that so many people do not feel obligated to follow the
particularly foolish rules which abound in the various religious instruction
manuals.

Those who are likewise prohibited from lopping off the heads of their
classmates are similarily suppressed.

Them's the breaks.

Lord, save us from your believers.