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I guess religion could be taught as long as you explain that it's mythology just like the Easter Bunny and Santa and don't try to push it as factual.
And that would be indoctrination. That's preaching atheism.
If you're going to teach religion in public school, you cannot take sides. Calling any or all religion a pack of lies or a myth is taking sides just as much as teaching "our religion is right and all others are wrong" is taking sides.
You get offended when someone differs from your beliefs yet you can't visualize someone getting offended with you proclaiming yours?
Unbelievable.
I'm just asking why one would think it's wrong. I have already said that I'd be ok with a Hindu, a Muslim, or a Rabbi teaching their religion in a class if I was given equal time.
As Cruithne has pointed out many times, religion from a non-sectarian perspective has been taught in UK schools as a matter of course for decades. As they would say across the pond, "it works a treat". I'm all for kids having cultural literacy about different religions. Religions have historically had a major impact on society, on art, on thought patterns, on war and peace, and a whole lot of other things.
Such a thing will never happen in the US though because it would quickly degenerate into a touche-kicking contest about who is or isn't getting equal time or crossing some sort of line into proselytization or corruption of youth or even radicalization. Too many people in the US take religion too seriously. I doubt that we're capable of approaching it matter of factly.
And that would be indoctrination. That's preaching atheism.
If you're going to teach religion in public school, you cannot take sides. Calling any or all religion a pack of lies or a myth is taking sides just as much as teaching "our religion is right and all others are wrong" is taking sides.
Yeah, I think any such stance would be clearly unconstitutional in the U.S.
Is your religion the only one? Do you mean that everyone has to believe as you do? Is a difference of thought allowed by your religion? Is it the dominate religion in the world?
If you truthfully answer these questions you will provide your own answer, which will tell you why.
'Indoctrination'...boy that is a word which gets to be spinned around pretty relentlessly when religious issues are discussed. I get the impression that non-believers feel anyone getting religious instruction gets er ' indoctrinated'.
Very pejorative I think and this is usually said by some to me when I say I had a Catholic education. Personally, I don't understand it. Hehe look I wasn't tied up with electrodes and connected to a machine or put to sleep and getting stuff piped into me at 2am in the morning with incense burning and candles lit by vigil lamps....;-)..Thing is on reflection
I had a great education, intelligent teachers and learned much and and contrary to some have stayed 'sane'...;-).....
I'm just asking why one would think it's wrong. I have already said that I'd be ok with a Hindu, a Muslim, or a Rabbi teaching their religion in a class if I was given equal time.
Just one version of Christianity, Vizio? Or would Catholics, Pentacostals, Jehovah's Witnesses, Mormons, Seventh-day Adventists and Christian Scientists all be given equal time?
Just one version of Christianity, Vizio? Or would Catholics, Pentacostals, Jehovah's Witnesses, Mormons, Seventh-day Adventists and Christian Scientists all be given equal time?
"Today, students, we'll be hearing from a member of the Church of Latter Day Saints who will be explaining Christianity. The noise you hear is coming from the fundamentalists who are outside picketing."
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