The country I was raised in


It was about 1965 when my husband was in the fourth grade. He came from
an Air Force family that had lived all around the world before the ended
up settling in a small Southern Illinois, mostly farm community outside
of an Air Force base. His was a nonobserving Jew, his mother a lapsed
Episcopalian. This couple had talked it over and decided to bring up
their children in NO particular religion; when they became adults, they
all could decide what, if anything, they wanted to do about that. So,
my husband grew up attending no church, though he had plenty of friends
who did attend, and he occasionally went to these churches as their
guest and to enjoy social activities. Nothing he ever saw there struck
a chord with him, and he is agnostic to this day.

Well, imagine his feelings as a 10-year-old when in school, his
fourth-grade teacher began quizzing all the children about which church
they attended. One boy said the Presbyterian church, one girl said the
Baptist. There were even a couple of Catholics. If there was a Jewish
community resident there, you would have needed an microscope to find
it. Finally, my husband, then little Michael, was asked where HE
attended church. The eyes of the entire class were upon him. He
realized that it would not be acceptable to say, "no church, my parents
don't believe." So he mumbled something about going to a church in
another town. He was relieved when the teacher finally moved onto
another topic and the spotlight was off of him.

I'm glad we don't live in that particular country anymore. Today, the
teacher would probably not be allowed to ask such a question, and even
if she did, all the PC crap that is forced on people in this country
MIGHT have just made her aware of the fact that not everyone is raised
in a faith, or they follow a faith that does not recognize Jesus as
their saviour. She doesn't like to have to think about such things. It
makes her uncomfortable. She wants to turn back the clock to a simpler
time when she could make a boy pretend that he was a Christian just so
that he would not stick out of the crowd too much. I think the promise
of our great country is fullfilled whent majority must acknowledge that
their way is not the only way.

People in the MTDesk is down thread often said that something they
didn't agree with had to be "PC." I think is a knee-jerk kind of
reaction. When you are tempted to invoke the term PC, step back a
minute, see if you cannot acknowledge that the opposing side MIGHT,
just might, have a legitimate beef with the way things have always been
and with the country that we were born in. I think the country we are
living in NOW is the best possible on earth, and it means that we all
have to find a way to live with each other. It means that some things
will have to change, and that's not all bad.

Gisele


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