odysseus

You people are missing the whole point of my post. Teaching about religion is not a bad thing. Religion has been a major part of society, whether that role has been good or bad. I'm not suggesting we should ban anything which contains "religion" or names of religions in it.

It is one thing to talk about religion in class. I think it's fine if people talk about Christmas or Ramadan or whatever religious festivals or things they have to talk about.

It is quite another thing to tell children in class that if you have premarital sex, then you shall go to Hell. Or that if you do not fear God, then you will not go to heaven. This is what I am saying should not be allowed.

Religion in history is different. I don't see how teaching history is imposing personal values.





destiny path wrote:
"1. The teacher was not teaching religion. If you look at the documents he was handing out to his students, they were all original founding documents, not some sort of propaganda. Source documents, friend."
Yes I agree and I said I felt what happened to him seems unnecessary so what's your point?

destiny path wrote:
"The history of the United States is not as "multi-ethnic", "multi-cultural", and "multi-religious" as you seem to think. Most of the founders and original Citizens were at least professing Christians, and most of those were Christians in earnest. This is fact, not my personal belief just because I want to believe it."

It was definitely not as multi-ethnic as it is today, but are you telling me the millions of African Americans, Italians, Chinese, Hispanics, Jews were Protestant Christians? And besides, you're taking that point out of context completely.


destinypath wrote:
"I completely agree with your last sentence, however, the first one is again not based on the facts because most public schools teach that either there is no god or no way of knowing whether there is a god, which are both the religions of atheism and agnosticism, respectively."

Like I said, actively teaching children that one is better than the other is bad. Public schools do not teach children religion. That is a far cry from teaching them that God does not exist.

golfkid

WOW JESUS is the only way you hippies!

empirescrumble

And thus ends the story of the highest amount of fail ever recorded for one single thread on the internet.

And that really says a lot, people.