Interesting piece. My name pops up. The kicker:

For the same reasons that I don’t want religion taught to my [theoretical future] children in public schools, I don’t want Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth to be a requirement for graduation. If the First Amendment prohibits the teaching of religion in public schools, shouldn’t it prohibit showing that movie? After all, what’s the difference between that movie and one that presented a traditional religion in the same way? Even if the secular authors’ ire is well-justified, we are never going to live in a world in which the vast majority of people don’t have faith in something, whether that something is God or Government. As an atheist I feel much less threatened by someone who is willing to put off perfection by relegating it to another place than I do by someone who thinks they can create it here and now. In other words, I think that the chance that a religion will “poison everything” is indirectly proportional to the length of time the proponents of the religion think it will take to perfect this world. Therefore, nothing scares me more than the demagogue who promises to immediately do just that. Without traditional religion, I think we would have a lot of demagogues in this mold.