(March 16, 2021 at 4:20 pm)Abaddon_ire Wrote:(March 16, 2021 at 3:53 pm)Seax Wrote: Chanting prayers sounds like religion to me.
Does it? So we should stop all archaeological excavations in Egypt because it get one closer to the religion of the Pharoahs. We should stop all attempts to discover their texts and language as spoken way back then, right?
Of course not. Such exercises (including the school class to which you refer) are not attempts to somehow re-establish any dead religion. They are attempts to understand how such ancient civilisations actually worked.
And you know this yourself. Has the study of the norse mythos made you somehow believe in Odin or Loki? Of course not.
Do people recreate the associated rituals today? Of course they do.
You have made an absurd claim, and now that it has been pointed out, you are attempting to double down.
Grow up.
There is a huge difference between teaching about a religion or trying to understand it from an academic or historical point of view, promoting it & forcing students to take part in it. When I took Medieval History the professor explained Arianism to us, and said it made more sense to her than the Chalcedonian doctrine she had grown up with. We learned about Saints & she explained some of the Catholic theology to us, as it was important to understanding Medieval Europe. As a historian that studies Medieval Christianity, this was completely appropriate. At no point did she ever try to prosthelytise to us, let alone instruct us to participate in prayer or religious chanting. Surely the difference there is not too subtle for you?
