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[bcholmes]

Some time ago, it was widely reported that some 20,000 Canadians reported their religion as "Jedi Knight" on the 2001 census. What I want to know is whether or not John Tory will fund my Jedi school.

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[(Anonymous)]

The difference between a religion and a cult is quantitative, I've always argued.

[lovecraftienne.livejournal.com]

Quite likely. Question is, who gets to draw the line between them? And where? And what happens to a funded religion that drops below the line? Gods forfend one of them should die - and they lost their funding?

The more one goes into this idea, the more intensely stupid it seems.

[icedrake.livejournal.com]

At this point, I feel the need to trot out the old and oft-repeated statement that "freedom of religion" in the US constitution wasn't about, y'know, freedom of *all* religions. It was originally intended as a freedom for protestants to do whatever the hell they wanted to the catholics, as a reversal of fortunes from the old world.

Or so I heard it told.

But that's an aside, really. I don't know enough about the different curricula to comment on that, but the concept of a separate, and separately funded, religious education program, always bothered me. I lived next to a Catholic high school while in Toronto, so I've had plenty of opportunities to be reminded of the issue, and to dwell on it :)

The people who should be feeling slighted the most are other religious families who desire to give their kids a religious education, but have to pay for it. Me, frankly I'd just as soon stay far, far away from the whole religious doctrine in school issue.

[icedrake.livejournal.com]

And I don't even argue that anonymously, no matter what the above might look like :)