Reggie Belafonte
Well-Known Member
The same here.In my public elementary school [in California from 1949-1957], one day a week we had what was called "religious release". Each church group or denomination could arrange to walk children of their persuasion [with the parents permission] to their own building/church to teach them according to what they believed. I was at the time Catholic, so I would go with the nuns for instruction according to our age level. This continued through the 8th grade [about age 13].
Their was a contingent of Mormons and a few oriental children belonging to eastern religions too small in number I guess to have a religious program so they remained at the school and had a period of supervised free time. I don't recall any children not going because they or their parents were atheists.
I never came across any one who was an atheist in my school days.
When people started claiming they were atheist was around 1990's and then they started strutting around in about 2000 and from 2010 on they became very dominating and even when one goes on jury duty, one does not have to swear on the Bible any more from about 2010, so I have seen idiots come up who just should not be on the Jury because they do not understand the gravity of the situation.