Should 'God' be taught in schools? Texas view!

Yes, the school prayer issue continues to induce strong emotions here as well as in the UK. Those most offended are not, however, members of the great monotheistic religions, nor indeed Buddhists or animists or Hindus.  They are atheists and agnostics, but mostly the former.

Atheists can be a royal pain as they tend to be aggressive in their denial of deity which, I am taught, is logically tantamount to belief in same. This diminutive minority can be highly vocal and articulate and has confounded heads of public institutions in their proclamation that talk of God is prejudicial to their own beliefs.

It has long been my conviction that like it or not, the US, the UK and Europe are Christian nations with Christian values. I have no problem with this and am pleased to extend the concept to Judeo-Christian values and even to Judeo-Christian-Islam values and thus incorporate all the people of the Book.

A further extension of this logic would require the addition of crescents and stars of David to the religious symbols that adorn many public places. I doubt this will happen and suspect we shall continue to wallow in the self righteousness of our multiple sects of believers and non-believers.

Everybody knows the rules of social behavior and this bickering over whose rules are more holy and which group has the most influence with God is boring and absurd.