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To: balrog666
Would you be upset if they placed Scientology on an equal footing with ID? How about Christian Science?

Where are you Coyoteman?

The Saturday Night Fights? OK, here is a good one.


Japanese Creation Story

Long ago all the elements were mixed together with one germ of life. This germ began to mix things around and around until the heavier part sank and the lighter part rose. A muddy sea that covered the entire earth was created. From this ocean grew a green shoot. It grew and grew until it reached the clouds and there it was tranformed into a god. Soon this god grew lonely and it began to create other gods. The last two gods it made, Izanagi anf Izanami, were the most remarkable.

One day as they were walking along they looked down on the ocean and wondered what was beneath it. Izanagi thrust his staff into the waters and as he pulled it back up some clumps of mud fell back into the sea. They began to harden and grow until they became the islands of Japan.

The two descended to these islands and began to explore, each going in different directions. They created all kinds of plants. When they met again they decided to marry and have children to inhabit the land. The first child Izanami bore was a girl of radiant beauty. The gods decided she was too beautiful to live in Japan, so they put her up in the sky and she became the sun. Their second daughter, Tsuki-yami, became the moon and their third and unruly son, Sosano-wo, was sentenced to the sea, where he creates storms.

Later, their first child, Amaterasu, bore a son who became the emperor of Japan and all the emperors since then have claimed descent from him.


13 posted on 08/13/2005 4:37:47 PM PDT by Coyoteman (Is this a good tagline?)
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To: Coyoteman

What creation story would you want taught in our public schools?


32 posted on 08/13/2005 6:14:24 PM PDT by Tribune7
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To: Coyoteman
Seems to me that in keeping with multiculturalism, if KS Board of Education decided to include Creationism as an alternative to Evolution they will be Required by Law to equally represent the other major religions as well..

I would not go so far as to insist on every American Indian creation myth, or other rare and esoteric religions, but one can logically find in a court of law that failure to equally represent say, Hindu, Buddhist, Taoist and Shinto would be "unconstitutional"...

136 posted on 08/13/2005 10:05:44 PM PDT by Drammach (Freedom; not just a job, it's an adventure..)
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