(July 5, 2014 at 2:14 pm)Rhythm Wrote:I'm not the least interested in seeing mythology taught as comparative religion. What I'd like to see is Jewish, Hindu, Christian, Muslim, etc. beliefs and scriptures laid out side by side preferably at the same time parents are saying "this is what we believe" at home. Wouldn't hurt for them to know just how many people believe each of the them either.(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?
Not certain how politically feasible it is, but it's more so than prohibiting parents from teaching kids religion.
If there is a god, I want to believe that there is a god. If there is not a god, I want to believe that there is no god.
