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Why should religion have any influence on our lives?
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RE: Why should religion have any influence on our lives?
(October 3, 2014 at 9:28 am)Michael B Wrote: *P.S. They also received a very good education in what other faiths teach (and their curriculum discussed what atheists and secularists thought). They visited other places of worship and had believers of other faiths explain their faith to them - not just a teacher saying "Jews believe this", but having a Jew say "We, as Jews, believe this". They were brought up to respect people of all faiths and none, and to know that different people believe different things, but that was not in opposition to teaching the Christian faith and having Christian worship and prayer every day. We respect the right of other faiths to teach what they believe to their children, even when we know they are teaching that Christianity is wrong. That's pluralism. That's tolerance. That's a mature society.

No that's tokenism. A school that preaches one religion as true at the expense of all others then goes into other religions to ask what they believe? Doesn't seem like they were taught anything about the 10 commandments in any case!

Specifically: "Thou shalt have no other gods before me."

I ask again, how many non-catholics attended your children's catholic school and how many of those that did were part of the legally required quota that faith schools have to open up (even if they don't fill them)?
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RE: Why should religion have any influence on our lives? - by Fidel_Castronaut - October 3, 2014 at 9:50 am

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