Mandatory Prayer/Religious Teachings in Public Schools Paradox

chevydriver1123 · 06-30-08, 02:14 PM

You know what amazes me about how religious/social conservatives say that religion should be taught in public schools and not left for the parents to decide what religion to teach their child? They usually say that parents arent responsible enough to teach their child religion so they want the schools do it, but yet these same conservatives believe that all public school teachers are nothing but flaming communist liberals. So they want evil communist flaming liberal teachers to teach a typically conservative value religion. Fully knowing that these communist liberal teachers will probably not touch a thing on homosexuality and/or abortion but instead focus more on how religion focused helping the poor, equality of all men, etc (which the approach religious liberals tend to take).

jallman · 06-30-08, 05:16 PM

I also find it fascinating when a religious mouthfoamer thinks that teachers are equipped to teach theology but aren't equipped to teach factual sex education.

American · 07-07-08, 01:46 PM

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Originally Posted by chevydriver1123

You know what amazes me about how religious/social conservatives say that religion should be taught in public schools and not left for the parents to decide what religion to teach their child? They usually say that parents arent responsible enough to teach their child religion so they want the schools do it, but yet these same conservatives believe that all public school teachers are nothing but flaming communist liberals. So they want evil communist flaming liberal teachers to teach a typically conservative value religion. Fully knowing that these communist liberal teachers will probably not touch a thing on homosexuality and/or abortion but instead focus more on how religion focused helping the poor, equality of all men, etc (which the approach religious liberals tend to take).

Total nonsense. You don't know what you're talking about.

jallman · 07-07-08, 02:57 PM

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Total nonsense. You don't know what you're talking about.

Oh well you certainly convinced me.

American · 07-07-08, 03:32 PM

...since you're unable to do it yourself.

jallman · 07-07-08, 03:33 PM

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Originally Posted by American

...since you're unable to do it yourself.

Would this be trolling or just lack of imagination on your part?

American · 07-08-08, 08:00 AM

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Originally Posted by jallman

Would this be trolling or just lack of imagination on your part?

I'll say it's lack of imagination on your part.

Bodhisattva · 07-09-08, 03:18 AM

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Originally Posted by American

Total nonsense. You don't know what you're talking about.

...perhaps you can illuminate his flaws with your understanding then, so we can have opposing views? Thanks.

DarkWizard12 · 07-09-08, 05:11 AM

The OP is full of Bollucks. For one thing, I'm a conservative, I think parents should be the ones responsible to teach religion and morals. Schools shoul and are SUPPOSED to remain neutral. Not secularlist, not christian, not buddhist, but neutral. A trend that does exist(althoug mostly universities, not schools) is to push secularist ideas and a total lack of moral ethics. Everyone knows this exists, just look at some of the people who come out of these universities, Ward Churchill, Arthur Butz, Bernie Ward, some of the Berkely students; hell, just to satisfy you liberalson why universities should be neutral, Fallwell and Pat Robertson both graduated. This is equally as bad as pushing radical islamist agenda IMO.

This huge 3-way contest in agendas between radical secularism, christianity, and islam is poisoning our education system.

Ikari · 07-09-08, 09:50 AM

Secularism is the removal of religion from the public sector, i.e. government and public schools. It's nothing more than that, if you don't think that religion should be taught in school, that's a secular thought. If you don't think religion should be intertwined with government, that's a secular thought. I would say that secularism is the neutral case, it doesn't say religion is bad or wrong, but rather that it's not appropriate in things such as govenrment and public schools, which is true.