Posted on 06/24/2023 2:53:43 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
The dolls are used to teach about their spirit masks and traditions. So yes an idol by definition. They are not play items. They are for religious instruction
I’ll repeat, I dare you to hang them all up all over your apartment/home/moms basement. Come back to me in a month.
Your life will not be the same if you do.
You say they are “innocent” and “harmless”.
Ok....
Do it then.
Aren’t also Southwest Indian items? Since this a Ohio class shouldn’t they be concerned about Shawnee, Wyandotte, Mingo, etc. cultural items?
A lot of teaching at this age range involves thematic units. History will tie into a music lesson, an art lesson, and even an English lesson.
I taught my own kids using thematic units in homeschool. It was more immersive and what they learned stuck with them.
First Amendment Rights? Heck...what about the superior Ten Commandments?
1. Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
2. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image.
“Sorry but Kachina dolls are NOT idols, this is just clickbait to enrage people who have no knowledge of kachina dolls”
You are correct. It won’t matter though.
I don’t think this lesson is bad as it sounds. Back when I was teaching in the 70s, we studied Indian culture and made stuff like this. We also made a big table top model of Custer’s Last Stand with toy Indian and cavalry figures. Kids loved it.
Who thef do you think you are kidding, former Freeptard?
Sorry I did not realize you had to make a certain amount of posts in a certain amount of time in a certain amount of days, would you please give me those exact numbers, Mr. Know-it-all?
Yeah. I recall we made them in the ‘60s.
You mean like Michelangelo’s Pieta, David & Moses statuary?
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Newsflash: half of all households in Arizona and New Mexico all have some kachina doll on their fireplace FYI
This sounds exactly like a Frank Peretti novel.
IIRC, it is the one *Piercing the Darkness*.
You mean like the Statue of Liberty
Which is an abstract rendering of the Roman Goddess Libertas
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertas
Welcome to FR.
And yes, if the objects are used in spirit worship, making them is making an idol.
If teaching Christianity in not allowed in school, then teaching this needs to be forbidden as well.
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