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RE: Teaching religion in school
January 5, 2015 at 1:07 pm
Jesus' birth, death, and resurrection doesn't sound so impressive and unique once you find out that stories like this were all the rage back then. You might as well be worshiping the Egyptian god Horus too, among others.
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RE: Teaching religion in school
January 5, 2015 at 1:08 pm
Kronus and his sons have the most metal God origin story ever.
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RE: Teaching religion in school
January 5, 2015 at 1:53 pm
Zues was making divinely birth kids all the time. A child of a god and a Human was nothing new.
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RE: Teaching religion in school
January 5, 2015 at 2:29 pm
As an aside, it was comparative mythology that broke Jesus for me as a child. My parents took me to Sunday School for many years until one day I actually paid some attention and compared Jesus to Superman. Understand I was VERY young. The teacher lady told me Superman was just a story, but Jesus was real. I wasn't having it. I believed in the Superfriends categorically and that bitch wasn't about to take Superman away and give preachy sandals guy instead. Next Sunday I literally hid under the bed and wouldn't come out until my parents gave up, because the Primitive Baptist church had attacked my faith in the Superfriends. I kid you not.
My book, a setting for fantasy role playing games based on Bantu mythology:
Ubantu
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RE: Teaching religion in school
January 5, 2015 at 3:11 pm
Seems like an improvement. I assume that by now you know Superman is not real.
If only the jesus freaks could get over their godboy as easily.
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RE: Teaching religion in school
January 5, 2015 at 4:45 pm
Even after being told Santa wasn't real, and all that, I figured Jesus must still definitely be real, because we don't see churches for Santa and the Easter Bunny. We don't have adults preaching salvation through the Tooth Fairy. Finding out that there are myths very similar to Jesus, and people actually used to worship the classical greek god as much as any other god, was the final nail in the coffin for me.
Once you learn more than what gets repeated at church over and over, you find out that this god isn't any more worth your time than the next one.
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RE: Teaching religion in school
January 5, 2015 at 4:52 pm
(This post was last modified: January 5, 2015 at 4:56 pm by Jaysyn.)
(January 4, 2015 at 3:14 pm)tantric Wrote: I'm all for it. I think "Religion, Philosophy and Ethics" should be as fundamental as Math. Children should be given a survey course on the world's major religions, including history, doctrine, etc in addition to studying philosophical fundamentals, important philosophers and the principles of ethics and morality.
This was called Freshman / 9th grade Social Studies at the Florida public high school I went to. We touched on all the major religions (including Buddhism) & none of them were given precedence.
"How is it that a lame man does not annoy us while a lame mind does? Because a lame man recognizes that we are walking straight, while a lame mind says that it is we who are limping." - Pascal
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RE: Teaching religion in school
January 5, 2015 at 4:57 pm
Teaching religion and teaching about religion are two different things that many American teachers are likely to get confused.
I'm not anti-Christian. I'm anti-stupid.
