RE: Exposing your child to religion...
September 16, 2013 at 7:21 pm
(This post was last modified: September 16, 2013 at 7:23 pm by Walking Void.)
I view things differently. There is great good in experiencing religion. There is no fairness in being exposed to a religion. Maybe You are asking what I meant by what I just said. Note, I said "fairness" and "a religion". The single largest problem with the religion department in some schools is the limited range of culture in a curriculum. As such, catholic schools, protestant schools, islamic schools, these religious schools are constructed by their head of faith... not the government. As such, my public catholic high school was built by the church (with crosses everywhere by the way), though maintained and instituted by the government. This contract allows the church to input into the curriculum. As such, I received 2 years of catholic classes, but only 1 year of world religion. On the fourth year I could and did opt out of religion classes even though they still kept english mandatory... math too but math is fine... those are my credits by the way. What I am leading towards, is the consequence of biased unto unfair religious education. My third year, with the world religion course, was probably the best religious course I ever took. Why? The lessons were not dogmatic like in my catholic courses (eg "Jesus loves you"). No, in fact they were very lenient to every religion on a balanced scale. Christianity in that course was a minor insignificance, and the attention to religions like islam or hinduism or confucianism was on par.
What I am almost at, is a very helpful point of advice. Teach psychology, understand religion, teach philosophy. Do not teach religion. Expose the children, but without favouring religion. Religions are countless in quantity, yet without relevance outside of humanity. They are not applicable beyond our visible galaxy. Religions are a concern. Not a positive concern, a negative. A religion founds itself on a fucking thought process. Shit. Shit, because people align themselves to 1. By the way if You just skimmed to the bottom I only cursed in the last few sentences.
What I am almost at, is a very helpful point of advice. Teach psychology, understand religion, teach philosophy. Do not teach religion. Expose the children, but without favouring religion. Religions are countless in quantity, yet without relevance outside of humanity. They are not applicable beyond our visible galaxy. Religions are a concern. Not a positive concern, a negative. A religion founds itself on a fucking thought process. Shit. Shit, because people align themselves to 1. By the way if You just skimmed to the bottom I only cursed in the last few sentences.
