The Freedom From Religion Foundation (Atheist group) has filed a federal lawsuit demanding an Indiana school district cease immediately (even though Christmas is months away) a live nativity scene as part of their school play. Really? What about the right of freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom to learn, to have and enjoy historical events. Who decides and who gives who the right to decide?

I understand separation of church and state. I get it, but what about studying Greek mythology, their religion of old in our schools today? What about studying Roman mythology, their religion of old in our schools today? What about the Norwegian Vikings, who saw the unification of the country where Christianization took place in the 11th century and abolished the Norse mythology? What about Anne Frank, a Jewish-born girl who was a victim of the Holocaust? What about Muslim conquests of the seventh and eighth centuries and the Christian Crudades of the 11th to 14th centuries or the wars of religion in the 16th and 17th centuries? How about the Israeli/Palestinian conflict or the Syrian War?

This my friends is a slippery slope. All of the above examples are about religion — historical events that have been taught and experienced since the beginning of time. No group has a right to decide what is history and what is not history. Books, plays and movies have depicted these events.

The athiest group that wants to take control and ban all religion from our schools wants to ban history. They don’t get to do it. Why? Because even when Adolf Hitler burned books in the 1930s that he viewed as subversive or representing ideologies opposed to Nazism, he lost. Just like atheists they lose. Hate always loses. God and goodness always wins.

 

Vicki Pestorious

Albert Lea