23 Sep 23
May be American schools should embrace a time-tested model from the U.K. Eaton - a prestigious boys' school has spent 500+ years teaching and encouraging education in religion in addition to the arts and sciences. Christian, Muslim and Jewish students are educated in their respective faiths and are encouraged to engage in dialogue with those of other faiths. The idea being they should come to know each other through knowledge of their respective holy writings, rather than through ignorance and superstition.
@mchill saidVery bad advice. American schools are more interested in
May be American schools should embrace a time-tested model from the U.K. Eaton - a prestigious boys' school has spent 500+ years teaching and encouraging education in religion in addition to the arts and sciences. Christian, Muslim and Jewish students are educated in their respective faiths and are encouraged to engage in dialogue with those of other faiths. The idea being th ...[text shortened]... through knowledge of their respective holy writings, rather than through ignorance and superstition.
- teachings kids about LGBQT and rainbow
- irrelevant black history
- how to have sex and put on a condom
- how a boy can dress like a girl
- how to disrespect parents
- how to blame white supremacy for all societies ills
- how to use social media and onlyfans to get rich
Religion is a failed concept. There is no God.
23 Sep 23
@mchill said - May be American schools should embrace a time-tested model from the U.K. Eaton - a prestigious boys' school
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What could go wrong there??? lol.
"Remember the Citadel!"
24 Sep 23
@rajk999 saidTeaching religion at school is not about there being a God or not (that’s philosophy).
Very bad advice. American schools are more interested in
- teachings kids about LGBQT and rainbow
- irrelevant black history
- how to have sex and put on a condom
- how a boy can dress like a girl
- how to disrespect parents
- how to blame white supremacy for all societies ills
- how to use social media and onlyfans to get rich
Religion is a failed concept. There is no God.
It’s about understanding the various religions and their impact on society.
@mchill saidSure thing:,teach kids about the Spanish Inquisition (the last person executed for heresy by the Inquisition died in 1826), the Salem witch trials (one of the accused was crushed to death by stones, took him three days to die), extermination of the entire indigenous races of the Caribbean and replacement by African slaves by the Spanish, teach them that Galileo was not ‘rehabilitated’ by the Church until Pope John Paul II, …
May be American schools should embrace a time-tested model from the U.K. Eaton - a prestigious boys' school has spent 500+ years teaching and encouraging education in religion in addition to the arts and sciences. Christian, Muslim and Jewish students are educated in their respective faiths and are encouraged to engage in dialogue with those of other faiths. The idea being th ...[text shortened]... through knowledge of their respective holy writings, rather than through ignorance and superstition.
Teach them that Saudi Arabia still executes people for witchcraft and that many Muslim nations hold women in subjugation, teach them that Wahabism teaches that women shouldn’t go to university or engage in the political process, the Taliban deny girls primary education … Yes, teach them how ignorance and superstition in the modern world grips whole swathes of the globe.
Teach them about Israel occupying and the Palestinians’ land ….
Yes, teach them to love each other; and teach them that religions don’t teach them to do that. Religions teach people to be factious.
24 Sep 23
@moonbus saidIt looks like almost everyone hates this idea.
Sure thing:,teach kids about the Spanish Inquisition (the last person executed for heresy by the Inquisition died in 1826), the Salem witch trials (one of the accused was crushed to death by stones, took him three days to die), extermination of the entire indigenous races of the Caribbean and replacement by African slaves by the Spanish, teach them that Galileo was not ‘rehab ...[text shortened]... .
Yes, teach them to love each other; and teach them that religions don’t teach them to do that.
It's got to be the right thing to do then! 😆
24 Sep 23
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@mchill saidCrappy idea. Do you think it would be grand to turn KellyJay loose on the kids? He would teach kids that everyone on the planet is as evil as murderers and rapists, even if most people don't commit murder or rape, simply because of a stupid toxic dogma that everyone has the same 'nature' as murderers and rapists. You think that's what kids should hear in schools?
It looks like almost everyone hates this idea.
It's got to be the right thing to do then! 😆
@shavixmir saidOh yes, the history of the impact of religion on society should definitely be taught in schools. For example, how Christianity retarded the advance of science by 500 years (viz. the condemnation of Galileo, forbidding him, on pain of torture, not only to entertain the hypothesis that the Earth moves, but even to think it moves ...).
It’s about understanding the various religions and their impact on society.
24 Sep 23
@moonbus saidIf you're going to do that you might as well include the Communist massacres in the name of atheism.
Sure thing:,teach kids about the Spanish Inquisition (the last person executed for heresy by the Inquisition died in 1826), the Salem witch trials (one of the accused was crushed to death by stones, took him three days to die), extermination of the entire indigenous races of the Caribbean and replacement by African slaves by the Spanish, teach them that Galileo was not ‘rehab ...[text shortened]... r; and teach them that religions don’t teach them to do that. Religions teach people to be factious.
24 Sep 23
@moonbus saidNiel DeGrasse Tyson admires the way the Church perfected our modern calendar and the astrological discoveries of Islam.
Oh yes, the history of the impact of religion on society should definitely be taught in schools. For example, how Christianity retarded the advance of science by 500 years (viz. the condemnation of Galileo, forbidding him, on pain of torture, not only to entertain the hypothesis that the Earth moves, but even to think it moves ...).
24 Sep 23
@athousandyoung saidOh yes, and how the Orthodox Church repudiated the Gregorian calendar and cleaved to the Julian … factious as ever.
Niel DeGrasse Tyson admires the way the Church perfected our modern calendar and the astrological discoveries of Islam.
24 Sep 23
@moonbus saidYes, religious extremists of all types should be avoided in schools. A general teaching about various religions and how they come together, like in charity and brotherly love is ideal if at all possible.
Crappy idea. Do you think it would be grand to turn KellyJay loose on the kids? He would teach kids that everyone on the planet is as evil as murderers and rapists, even if most people don't commit murder or rape, simply because of a stupid toxic dogma that everyone has the same 'nature' as murderers and rapists. You think that's what kids should hear in schools?
@mchill saidYes if religion must have a place in the modern curriculum then teach comparative religious studies. We cannot pretend that religion does not impact the lives of believers and non believers but there should be no indoctrination as to the veracity of religious texts over the reality of scientific and observational fact
It looks like almost everyone hates this idea.
It's got to be the right thing to do then! 😆
24 Sep 23
@mchill saidHow about including humanism, atheism, agnosticism, Buddhism, pantheism?
May be American schools should embrace a time-tested model from the U.K. Eaton - a prestigious boys' school has spent 500+ years teaching and encouraging education in religion in addition to the arts and sciences. Christian, Muslim and Jewish students are educated in their respective faiths and are encouraged to engage in dialogue with those of other faiths. The idea being th ...[text shortened]... through knowledge of their respective holy writings, rather than through ignorance and superstition.
