Alright Bloggers
So yesterday we answered the question on Capital Punishment and overall the responses were about the same.
Now I have heard a lot about religion the last few days and have seen how it could sway your answer. So I have a question for everyone!!!
Do you feel a class in Theology* should be added to a high school curriculum in the public school system as a elective? A required class?
Also do you think religion should be added to the way we make laws and carry out such laws?
Do you think that one religion should be used as a foundation for our culture?
*The study of religion
Friday, November 30, 2007
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7 comments:
you cant realy base any laws on religion because there are so many how can you?
Schools should have both the evolution therey taought and religion, but again there is so many different ones.
I think that there should be an elective class on Theology in the public skool system
It should and should not be used as a base on our cultuer because yet again there are so many how do we selcet which ones to use or do we have so many different things bacause of the many different religions.
I think, no religion, or evoltution should b taught in school. if the child's rents would like to enlighten them by filling their heads with those thoughts so b it then. but school is a place to learn things we use in life, pernsoal things like that can b learned @ home
If we where to base our laws on the bible it would be a perfect worl with no sin. which in human nature is not possible.
Three points:
1. An elective class on "Comparative Religions" would pass Constitutional muster. A class on a single religion in which students would be forced to support that religion, would not.
2. Whether we like it or not, America is a nation based on Christian values. That being said, we have attempted to take those values and rationalize them through our distinct political philosophy, which itself has been further distilled over the course of the last 2,500 years of Western Civilization beginning with the Greeks, moving through the Romans, Renaissance Europe, Great Britain, and finally the American Colonies.
3. Isn't it great that we can passionately discuss these issues without anyone fearing for their life, liberty, or personal freedom? For all the haters out there, The United States is a beautiful idea.....desu ne?
To the question, "should theology be taught in public schools" I know it won't be because our morally bankrupt society would get too offended by religion; but I think that it should be. A mandatory class teaching about the ideals that our country was based on would, if nothing else be a good lesson in history and culture. I think that to leave out theology; the part of history that has most influenced our country, the way that we think, and the reason there is so much controversy, would be ignoring the issues in our past that if carefully studied could help throw off the violent pattern of religious tyranny in the future. It may also teach us some basic manners and ethics that we're all i need of.
When it comes to the law; Religion should not have a hand in how we make laws even if it's the most peaceful one ever because culture changes and that's how we end up with classes and unfair civilizations.
For the most part one religion was used to influence our culture. The future is a much darker, godless spiral of shallow morals and humanized discontentment.
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