RE: Banning religious teachings for minors
July 5, 2014 at 2:14 pm
(This post was last modified: July 5, 2014 at 2:23 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(July 5, 2014 at 11:40 am)Jenny A Wrote: I suggest that we go about it the other way round and teach comparative religion in the schools beginning in grade school. Nothing like showing off all the idiocy.
-WAS taught comparative mythology from grade school on. Up to and including a private catholic high school. Catholic schools, in our diocese, leaned on legalism so that they could teach comparative mythology while refusing to draw any direct comparisons to catholicism specifically. No questions in that regard would be answered by anything other than a reminder that the educator could not, in this environment, answer that question for you - satisfactorily. I took that as encouragement to do my own reading. The lure of St. Petersburg Catholic was not that it denied the sorts of education that would be required for ivy league entrance - but that it enabled it - from within the framework of what the organization could offer without compromising it's position. More specifically, it was a good way to get into Stetson (with the added bonus of something to put on a real ivy league app). Obviously, I never followed through with that, but meh. Here I am...lol, digging holes in the ground. Tell you what though, it was a master class in ag and supply economics - in that I may or may not have learned a great deal selling 'dro/yayo to coddled rich kids.
So, business as usual?
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