Current thinking - teach all religions. I say abolish it all

[OddTrader]

getting back to opie, Should it be taught in school?

I would suggest basically No for all schools including religious schools. Impractical, isn't it?

However/therefore a "Religions Review" with same/standard/identical contents would be optional/elective for all schools including all religious schools. Including a small % time for a school to teach their own religion.

It's not a Comparative Religion course at all.

imo, students should learn the history of all major religions, comparatively, analytically, objectively and respectfully.

Not only modern religions but also some ancient ones of significant impacts.

When looking back the history of tho facts about religions and their impacts on the society of the age in terms of development in laws, politics, governments, humanity, justice, wars, sciences, economies, medicines, philosophies, ethics, etc.

Covering not only their positive contributions for appreciation, but also their negative destruction acts in order to avoid/repeat any same or similar mistakes.

Seems this introductory subject has not been developed or available yet today!

Perhaps call it Religions Review!

Just 2 cents!

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/nov/28/religion-without-god-ronald-dworkin-review

https://newrepublic.com/article/114...gion-without-god-reviewed-religious-worldview

http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674726826

 

[smallStops]

OddTrader,

I am curious : were you raised in any religious setting? if so which one?
if not: how comes you discuss about religion?

 

[OddTrader]

OddTrader,

I am curious : were you raised in any religious setting? if so which one?
if not: how comes you discuss about religion?

I think everyone should be/feel free to discuss religion(s).

The impact of religion historically to the society/world has been too great to be ignored. Particularly about religion wars! Killing too many innocent lives, children included!

I am quite interested in peacebuilding issues, religion hence included! Just a starter anyway!

 

[smallStops]

I was asking because many people have had a bad - and I mean really bad- religious education, thus have developed a lot of negatives toward religion.

Peacebuilding is a very good thing. What is the main things that make peacebuilding difficult?

 

[OddTrader]

I don't know. But everyone should be able to do her/his part (s)he thinks fit!

Probably lack of investments/developments in 3 interrelated areas:

- Knowledge/Research/Analytics!
- Long-term systemic/dynamic modelling (economics, politics, resources, taxes, etc.)!
- Education/Poverty/Equality!

What do you think? Your interests in any of them?

 

[smallStops]

These areas seem to cover the various aspects.
Yes, of course I am interested about these areas.
Here are few things that might of interest to you:

and

These could be helpful tools in peacebuilding.

 

[stu]

you can't be an atheist without first believing in God so you have something to not belieive in.

Oh, but that's nonsense.
If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Alice in Wonderland

for instance, there are very few scientific theories that are not also confirmed in the ancient texts, most notably, The Big Bang. We just say God said Let There Be Light, now, if you want to discover just how He did it, well, then that is science.

Creation myths don't confirm scientific theory. In the beginning, at big bang, there was no light and nothing to make the heavens and the Earth from, no waters of the deep and no vaults below .

 

[stu]

Peacebuilding is a very good thing. What is the main things that make peacebuilding difficult?

Religion (for one thing).

 

[smallStops]

Religion (for one thing).

Religion? this is interesting.
Do you make a distinction between Religion and Sects?

 

[stu]

Religion? this is interesting.
Do you make a distinction between Religion and Sects?

Religious sects are the subdivisions of larger religious groups. It's all religion.