Talking about religious figures in school.

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July 7th, 2007 at 02:05am
I don't believe religion should be taught in public schools. And, if the schools insist on teaching religion then they should teach the majority of them, not just one or two.
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July 7th, 2007 at 11:53am
vonny:
I don't believe religion should be taught in public schools. And, if the schools insist on teaching religion then they should teach the majority of them, not just one or two.


this wasn't about teaching the actual religion, it was about teaching about Jesus and Muhammad and other religious figures who were alive and made some sort of impact.
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July 9th, 2007 at 04:07am
I think it's okay to teach kids about that.
Perfectly fine. I learned about it.
But I guess it has different effects on different people, so maybe they shouldn't.
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July 9th, 2007 at 08:05pm
Domo:
I think it's okay to teach kids about that.
Perfectly fine. I learned about it.
But I guess it has different effects on different people, so maybe they shouldn't.

Well, yeah, but maths has different effects on different people.

Some people are good at it. Other people want to blow their brains out after a lesson of algebra. Does that mean they shouldn't teach maths?
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July 16th, 2007 at 02:37am
I think relgious lessons should not be taught til secondary school and should not be compulsory as i dont agree with filling impressionable childrens heads with your own beliefs they should have the chioce to learn this stuff at an age when they can analyse and question what they are being told and then make there own conclusions from it...
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July 16th, 2007 at 04:36am
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I think relgious lessons should not be taught til secondary school and should not be compulsory as i dont agree with filling impressionable childrens heads with your own beliefs they should have the chioce to learn this stuff at an age when they can analyse and question what they are being told and then make there own conclusions from it...

They teach greek mythology in school; that was a religion at one point in time. But they aren't forcing their beliefs on kids or anything like that. Its purely educational and benifits their understanding of cultures outside their own. I don't see any problem with discussing other religions from that same perspective.
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July 16th, 2007 at 10:49am
Kurtni:
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I think relgious lessons should not be taught til secondary school and should not be compulsory as i dont agree with filling impressionable childrens heads with your own beliefs they should have the chioce to learn this stuff at an age when they can analyse and question what they are being told and then make there own conclusions from it...

They teach greek mythology in school; that was a religion at one point in time. But they aren't forcing their beliefs on kids or anything like that. Its purely educational and benifits their understanding of cultures outside their own. I don't see any problem with discussing other religions from that same perspective.

i agree totally... what i am saying is that religion should be taught later in life where the person can tell the difference between fact and untested faith... when the person is at the age where they have independant beliefs and can decide what to believe...
if i was to tell a child at four or five that there were fairys which give wishes it would probably be easy to convince them with little evidence...
so i think you sould wait til the child is old enough to look at what they are being told and analyse it to come to there own conclusion.. something which younger children cannot really do...
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July 16th, 2007 at 11:55am
I think its a bad idea to be taught about religeion, and remember this is coming from someone who believes in god.
Theres alot of different religouns out there, and one could offend someone and the person who is offended could take it to heart then theres a riot.

I have nothing against catholics, but I odn't think there should be catholic school's that only catholics go to. I mean talk about sectarianism, my school is just across from the catholic one but we get blamed if they do something wrong. One day a younger kid was beaten by a group of kids who go to that catholic school, and it was the smaller kid who was made out to be the bully.
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July 16th, 2007 at 01:04pm
missand:
I think its a bad idea to be taught about religeion, and remember this is coming from someone who believes in god.
Theres alot of different religouns out there, and one could offend someone and the person who is offended could take it to heart then theres a riot.
That's ridiculous. If you're teaching school children about different religions, it's letting them know about the world that they're living in. I highly doubt that any child would be offended by knowing what other people do in their life so much to cause a riot.

By teaching about different religions, schools are helping to eliminate ignorance that could lead to racisim just because people don't know. As long as the schools are not telling children what to believe, just what others do believe, and how people think in different ways, then I see no problem in teaching about religious figures.
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July 16th, 2007 at 05:11pm
My school's "laïque".
Don't know what that is in english, but it's basically where you're not allowed to show any form of religion
I think it's a good system because then students aren't forced to see a certain way
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July 16th, 2007 at 05:33pm
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My school's "laïque".
Don't know what that is in english, but it's basically where you're not allowed to show any form of religion
I think it's a good system because then students aren't forced to see a certain way


I can understand why its like that but would you/your classmates be offended if you started talking about Jesus as just part of a history lesson? Nothing about the religion itself but the man behind it?
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July 16th, 2007 at 07:34pm
Santi! Queercore:
My school's "laïque".
Don't know what that is in english, but it's basically where you're not allowed to show any form of religion
I think it's a good system because then students aren't forced to see a certain way
Aren't you forced to see things in a nonreligious way, still?
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July 17th, 2007 at 12:45am
Santi! Queercore:
My school's "laïque".
Don't know what that is in english, but it's basically where you're not allowed to show any form of religion
I think it's a good system because then students aren't forced to see a certain way


how is avoiding it compleatly, as apposed to talking about it in a historical context or atlest touching on the subject, a good system? aren't you just avoiding the subject, and as you must know that never gets anyone anywhere good and that maybe one day they may need to know those things?
You can't be forced in public school to see relgion in a certin way (if you are, they're breaking the whole seperation of chruch and state thing)
And are you also telling me that if I was, say, a Jewish and a male, if I wore a Yamika or If I wanted to wear a Rosery around my neck the admin would make me take it off? That concerns me, because aren't you ( call it a jump) going down a road of Communistic-totalitarism by not allowing a such a basic form of self expression?
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July 17th, 2007 at 11:02am
missand:
I odn't think there should be catholic school's that only catholics go to.
Buddhists go to catholic schools too.
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July 17th, 2007 at 11:03am
I think it is ridiculous when schools do not allow the Muslim head dress for Muslim girls and boys. That just really pisses me off.
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July 17th, 2007 at 11:09am
Anji:
I think it is ridiculous when schools do not allow the Muslim head dress for Muslim girls and boys. That just really pisses me off.
It's just the dress code argument. Nobody forces muslims to attend a non-Islamic school, in the same way nobody really foces a kid with a lip piercing to go to a school that doesn't accept them.
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July 17th, 2007 at 11:30am
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Anji:
I think it is ridiculous when schools do not allow the Muslim head dress for Muslim girls and boys. That just really pisses me off.
It's just the dress code argument. Nobody forces muslims to attend a non-Islamic school, in the same way nobody really foces a kid with a lip piercing to go to a school that doesn't accept them.
But it's the principals. A head dress is way mor than a lip piercing and when private schools refuse to bend their uniform rules so that a Muslim can at least get that level of education, just urgh. Horrible.
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July 24th, 2007 at 12:44pm
I remember when I was in school, It was all about the muslim religion, the sikh religion and religions in Asia.

And when we asked to be taught about our own I was called a racist.
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July 24th, 2007 at 01:02pm
OMG.... Crazy.
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July 24th, 2007 at 09:30pm
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OMG.... Crazy.
...Indeed.
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