Setanta wrote:In the article post by AU, Miss Novovitch wrote:The vote on the disputed textbook, for an elective Bible study course, has not ended the matter. Critics say the book promotes fundamentalist Protestant Christianity.
This is the issue of particularism which the fundys can't or won't get. Saying that the United States is a majority christian nation is no good reason to favor any one creed over another--but the real problem the evangelicals will run into over time will be the resistance to their agenda by other christians who do not accept their world view.
Yet that, however, is the argument made in the UK for enforcing a law that forces schools to hold daily acts of Christian worship and teach Christianity. And look at the situation of faith in the UK:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4434096.stm
