So why not put up posters depicting a gay pride march, a performer at a drag show, a mixed-race couple holding hands (extra points if they are the same sex), pagans celebrating Halloween around a bonfire, Muslims on their prayer rugs, people dancing at a Diwali festival?
There’s not enough school year to teach all religions.
MAGA morons would never allow that to happen.
I think the inspiration probably goes back to Karl Marx, who believed a society could be designed on the principles of scientific materialism, and that religious belief and practice was poisonous to the collective welfare of the proletariat .
If the real goal of posting a particular religion's list of rules in the classroom is to instill moral behavior, why not try this instead? Most religions have some version of the Golden Rule. Why not post these versions with an attribute after each showing where it came from?
Strong churches posed a threat to their power. It was that simple. It wasn’t about their strong atheistic beliefs at all.
Our h.s. offered a World Religions semester course. I didn't take it but a couple friends did. They covered the world's major faiths, mostly as a history course that touched on the tenets of the various beliefs as well as how they began and how they're practiced today. Always regretted not taking that course. Our pastor though taught it in confirmation class, along with the Lutheran dogma.
Agree. They preferred that the citizens looked to the state as their "god," rather than to an invisible deity.
We were required to take two semesters of theology in college. Enjoyed them a lot. I pretty much do some study on religion, especially Christianity, daily.
Did you attend a Christian college? What was covered in a theology class?
Notre Dame. So yeah, pretty fucking Catholic. Although, in the 70s, pretty liberal.
I don't know why that is such a key distinction. The Catholic Church also persecuted heretical moments, Protestants, and pagans because they were viewed as threats to the authority of church
A high school football coach leading a prayer in the locker room, or a history teacher posting the ten commandments is not the hill I'm going to stake my flag to die on.
I don't remember a class like that in high school, but it is probably offered universally in universities.
You're absolutely right. MAGA morons would never post the eightfold path of the Bhudda, or the five vows of Jainism alongside the Decalogue because this is not an effort to promote universal standards of morality, it's intent is to provoke a court case in the hope conservative justices will privilege Christianity
I decided years ago that I couldn't really understand history, culture, philosophy, ethics, anthropology, even art and literature to some extent, without having a grasp of world religions.Because you only care about religion.
Where did you plagiarize this post from?
