(May 29, 2023 at 7:24 am)arewethereyet Wrote:(May 29, 2023 at 1:14 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: "I think there ought to be a class in public schools on religion. It occupies an undeniably significant role in civilization. The religion class should cover all the world’s faith-based philosophies and belief systems. I think, historically, such a class was omitted because religions themselves are not fans of tolerating other religions."
Neil deGrasse Tyson
I attended Catholic schools and took a class in high school called World Religions. It was really quite well done. It was taught by a quirky, rogue priest who often went off script. I had him for English Lit too. It's always seemed strange to me how afraid some people are about even talking about other faith practices.
I took a similar class, but the Brother who taught it wasn’t rogue at all. For each section, he would go into excruciating detail about the beliefs and practices of religion X, then spend an equal amount of time telling us why it was wrong and its adherents were going to Hell.
Boru
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