--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <no_re...@...> wrote: > > I am SO bored with this topic I can't chime > in with much more than a rant. I don't see > how anyone with an ounce of integrity can > *possibly* be arguing that the TMO does not > teach religiously-based ideas.
I don't argue that TM has religious roots. I do argue that my practice of TM, or yoga, or Ayurvedic diet, or massage all of which have religious roots, makes me a part of or practicing the root religion. 80% of what is taught ins schools also have religious roots. Our civilization is to a good extent Greco-Roman which where highly god-based cultures -- with a strong overlay of theologically based-European traditions. I am not clear where to draw the line, but drawing it for TM and not the pledge of allegiance, discussions of religious background and traditions in history class, use of religious based art and music in those classes, teaching the theories of that religious occultist nut Newton in physics class, etc seems both arbitrary and biased. > > And personally I'm getting a little tired of it. > There seems to me to be NO QUESTION that > teaching TM *as it is taught now* in American > school systems violates the Constitution. How is that? "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;" I am missing the connection of teaching a secular technique with religious roots as creating a state sponsored religion.
