Archbishop of Canterbury: Children should be taught the Lord's Prayer

[Insanity x]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion...rayer.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/17561869

The second link is on the cbbc website which is mostly for kids but had a bit more info that the telegraph. And a video

Quote:He said: "I'd like to see schools introducing children to the Lord's Prayer, so that they know that it's there, they know what it means and know why it matters.

[KichigaiNeko]

Yeah saw this and thought ... paedophile!! I really don't like the Archbishop at all. Meh personal preference...meh

[Insanity x]

He certainly has a strange set of eyebrows.

The thing is its not been that long since this kind of shit had been out of school. When I was in primary school 6-11 and infants school 4-6 I had an hour and a half assembly where we had to sit and listen to bible story's and sing hymns. That be punished by losing break time or other lame punishments. Personally I didn't care much found a lot of the story's quite interesting and learned to mime pretty well But lost a few break times for miming. I mean seriously.. All things bright and beautiful? that's nowhere near as fun as tanks and machine guns...

We also had regular trips to churches all around town on each christian holiday although suspiciously never went to and mosques or synaogues on muslim or jewish holidays..

But to a parent of a child that isn't christian why should they have to learn the beliefs of another. It changed just before I left in it must have been 2001-2002 But I just looked up the site for my old school and this is there Religious Education policy:

Quote:As a multi-cultural school, Herne firmly believes that our pupils should be taught a broad Religious Education which focuses on the key principles of respect, tolerance and understanding for different beliefs and religions. This will best prepare our pupils for later life.

Parents have the right to withdraw children from religious lessons and daily worship in assemblies but it must be understood that such activities make a contribution to cross-curricular objectives pursued during the course of the school week.

So I guess its back to how it was when I went. This is a public funded school not a faith school which is kinda troubling. I'm not entirely sure how a school can be both multicultural and have worship of one religion while excluding pupils who don't participate by telling them to either sit there and ignore it or wait outside on your own every morning.

There website if your interested: http://www.schooljotter.com/showpage.php?id=118136

[Tiberius]

(31st March 2012 15:20)KichigaiNeko Wrote:  Yeah saw this and thought ... paedophile!! I really don't like the Archbishop at all. Meh personal preference...meh

How is this paedophilic? Stupid and intolerant, yes...but paedophilic?

[KichigaiNeko]

Really Tiberius!! I said it was a personal preference..I did NOT say it was logical...and implied by the use of the "personal" that it had an emotional and irrational component to the preference...sheesh!!

[Rev. Rye]

(31st March 2012 14:31)Insanity x Wrote:  

Quote:He said: "I'd like to see schools introducing children to the Lord's Prayer, so that they know that it's there, they know what it means and know why it matters.

I suppose I might support this if it were part of a curriculum of religious literacy, because Christianity has, for better or for worse, had an incalculable influence on western civilization from the days of Constantine on.

But really, if it's just part of simple religious instruction, why can't they learn it in church? Isn't it already a part of every single Christian church service?

[Welsh cake]

Children should be taught English, maths and science.

This embarrassment to the Church should retire already.

[Minimalist]

Quote:Children are now half as likely to know the text of the Lord's Prayer than they were 40 years ago

Sounds like half a step in the right direction.

Society will finally attain maturity when it stops praying to fictional sky-daddies altogether!

[KichigaiNeko]

What makes him think that they knew the whole "Lord's Prayer" 40 years ago??

[padraic]

(31st March 2012 17:13)KichigaiNeko Wrote:  What makes him think that they knew the whole "Lord's Prayer" 40 years ago??

Which version?


I went to a Catholic school. The Catholic version of the Lord's Prayer is different from much of the rest of Christendom; it leaves out the last sentence "for thine is the kingdom, the power, and the glory,forever"

Yup,Christians can't even agree on THAT.

Quote:The Lord's Prayer (also called the Pater Noster[1] or Our Father[2]) is a central prayer in Christianity. In the New Testament of the Christian Bible, it appears in two forms: in the Gospel of Matthew[3] as part of the discourse on ostentation in the Sermon on the Mount, and in the Gospel of Luke, which records Jesus being approached by "one of his disciples" with a request to teach them "to pray as John taught his disciples."[4] The prayer concludes with "deliver us from evil" in Matthew, and with "lead us not into temptation" in Luke. The liturgical form is Matthean. Some Christians, particularly Protestants, conclude the prayer with a doxology, an addendum appearing in some manuscripts of Matthew.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord%27s_Prayer