I'm not surprised. It seems that everyone who has a chip on their shoulder about religion had some major experience of it as they grew up.
I wasn't allowed to do religious education. Told the teacher she was full of shit or something.
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Why, because even as a child I could see that what she was saying demanded belief in extraordinary events with little to no proof baring a hypocritical, archaic, ill-translated text of dubious origin and worth?
I went to St Marys School, in Ramelton, Republic of Ireland, from 1987 to 1990.Went to St Josephs School, Whangarei, from 1991 to 1993.Went to Pompallier College, Whangarei, from 1994 to 1996.
No, because you allow yourself to be consumed by it. I too worked out that religion/christianity wasn't for me when i was about 10-11 years old, but i left it behind there and then and got on with my life. I didn't feel the need to rip shit out of people who still felt that it held something for them.
was the prinicpial at pompallier when you where there a Mr McKay?
the principal there was a nun.
People can believe in whatever religion they want. I'm not going to stop them. I am going to rip the shit out of them if they try to impose their religion on others. And that is happening more and more in this day and age.
I think religious instruction in school is probably the worst thing the church could do. I would guess that a large percentage of those receiving the instruction will call bullshit simply for the fact that the education they recieve teaches one thing and the religious instruction contradicts it. Plus the typical teenage rebel will just laugh and ignore it.
Hardly!The message is different and the method's are different. Its not a different wrapper, its just more lollies.
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I'm not sure I agree with that. At the school I went to (in Holland) for one year, once a week we had a class that can best be described as humanities. Each week we were taught the beliefs of a different religion and what they stood for. We were also taught the view of the non religious. Our teacher never made a judgement about any of them, making sure he didn't try and sway our personal opinion. It was more about telling us what various people believed and then let us decide what we wanted. It was my second favourite class that year (behind physics).What I'm trying to say is, if you have a well disciplined teacher, with no personal agenda apart from imparting knowledge without judgement, teaching religious beliefs in school can help increase understanding, and that is a lot better than ignorance.
the core is the same, the skin has changed to suit the time.the message and methods are different but they all point and lead to one place.or am i looking at it wrong? maybe i am.
He never mentioned any other religion. ever. And I doubt they do in Catholic schools either.
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Einstein was religious.
