Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Oh Indiana, Why am I not Surprised?

Indianapolis schools ban "Alternative spirituality/belief" websites. This includes Wicca, Witchcraft, Satanism, and of course Atheism. Wait, what? Since when is Atheism "Alternative spirituality" or even an alternative belief for that matter. There are far more people that say they don't believe in God (~9%) then there are that identify as Jews (~2%).

The official policy goes on to say that alternative spirituality/belief "Includes sites that endorse or offer methods, means of instruction, or other resources to effect real events through the use of spells, incantations, curses, and magic powers". Not only do they have no idea how badly they miscategorized "Atheism", they also seem to believe that real events in fact can be influenced by "magic".

Of course, they don't ban the bible and all of it's sexual acts and murder, or other "main stream" religions. Those are acceptable crazy beliefs. My opinion of Indiana (especially the Indianapolis public school system, which has enough problems as it is) is going down by the day.

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