Does this sound too much like organized religion?

[starbucks]

Unfortunately, I don't have the link but there was an article written about an atheist group on the west coast who decided that they were going to start educating their children in the manner of Sunday School. Of course, it wouldn't be teaching Bible scriptures and stuff but atheist "fundamentals" - something like that. The group was concerned that while Christians were giving their children something on Sunday, children from atheist parents would somehow be losing out.

What do you think of this? Sounds like these folks are modeling after organized religion without the Bible preaching and stuff.

[tackattack]

I'm gratefull for any parent who tries to teach their child anything without the use of a T.V.

[starbucks]

I'm gratefull for any parent who tries to teach their child anything without the use of a T.V.

But to sit them in a classroom on Sunday? These atheist parents are going about it in all the wrong ways. They're doing the very thing that they're accusing Christians of doing - spoon-feeding children with their beliefs. Is it really necessary for them to rally the children into a group under some Sunday School Atheist teacher?

I really wish I had the link. It was written awhile back.

[Violet]

I think it is a preposterous idea... the next thing we'll hear about is a Sunday School Aracist teacher.

Scrap sunday school... 5 days of school a week should be plenty.

[Autumnlicious]

I'm gratefull for any parent who tries to teach their child anything without the use of a T.V.

Teaching is generally something to be grateful for.

But to sit them in a classroom on Sunday? These atheist parents are going about it in all the wrong ways. They're doing the very thing that they're accusing Christians of doing - spoon-feeding children with their beliefs. Is it really necessary for them to rally the children into a group under some Sunday School Atheist teacher?

I really wish I had the link. It was written awhile back.

If the spoon-fed information was critical thought, does it qualify in the same vein as unsubstantiated claims that Christians make?

By your logic, something like Camp Quest is just as bad as any Christian summer camp, despite that one holds critical thought discussions, holds to a strict anti-discrimination policy and invites a variety of speakers from different faiths as opposed to a monolithic grouping which dedicates arts and crafts to some imaginary friend without any proof and is usually centered on a belief to the detriment of all others.

Don't bother claiming that a lack of belief constitutes a belief - I will shoot back at you that the usual logic in that statement would be the assertion then that bald is a hair color and not-collecting-stamps is a hobby.

[leo-rcc]

What do you think of this? Sounds like these folks are modeling after organized religion without the Bible preaching and stuff.

If it is as you portray it, then it sounds like a really awful idea to me. As I told the nice lady from the Camp Quest post, there is a fine line between teaching children how to think and teaching them what to think, and one should never lose sight of that.

A link would be nice though.

[Tiberius]

It all depends on what they are actually teaching. You didn't post anything other than hearsay, so I can't make a critical comment. Like Syn said, if they are being taught critical thinking like at Camp Quest, I have no problem with it.

[fr0d0]

With an anti theist agenda critical thinking can mean the censorship of ideas.

[Tiberius]

Critical thinking with an agenda isn't critical thinking.

[fr0d0]

Then it'd be a critical thinking school and not an atheist school. What's being suggested is an atheist school teaching critical thinking.