I wouldn't mind an extra curricular class about mythology and religion being taught in schools, as long as the teacher isn't claiming that one religion is the One True Faith or something. Show where these stories about floods and gods and virgin births came from, and how they relate to each other, and all that stuff. It can be interesting.
Of course the religious people would still complain about it. Even if people are studying the bible, if they're putting all the other holy texts and mythologies on the same level as the bible, the christian fundies will call it blasphemy. They don't want people knowing that Jesus wasn't the only person who was supposedly born of a virgin, or that christianity took many things from different beliefs in order to gain converts, or that there were people at one time who decided which biblical books were cnon, and which weren't.
Of course the religious people would still complain about it. Even if people are studying the bible, if they're putting all the other holy texts and mythologies on the same level as the bible, the christian fundies will call it blasphemy. They don't want people knowing that Jesus wasn't the only person who was supposedly born of a virgin, or that christianity took many things from different beliefs in order to gain converts, or that there were people at one time who decided which biblical books were cnon, and which weren't.
Poe's Law: "Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is impossible to create a parody of Fundamentalism that SOMEONE won't mistake for the real thing."
10 Christ-like figures that predate Jesus. Link shortened to Chris ate Jesus for some reason...
http://listverse.com/2009/04/13/10-chris...ate-jesus/
Good video to watch, if you want to know how common the Jesus story really is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88GTUXvp-50
A list of biblical contradictions from the infallible word of Yahweh.
http://infidels.org/library/modern/jim_m...tions.html
10 Christ-like figures that predate Jesus. Link shortened to Chris ate Jesus for some reason...
http://listverse.com/2009/04/13/10-chris...ate-jesus/
Good video to watch, if you want to know how common the Jesus story really is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88GTUXvp-50
A list of biblical contradictions from the infallible word of Yahweh.
http://infidels.org/library/modern/jim_m...tions.html
