Posted on 12/20/2008 10:01:53 AM PST by gscc
Seven Christian students in Quebec have been handed suspensions in the last few days – and could face expulsions – for refusing to participate in a new mandatory Ethics and Religious Culture course that, according to a critic, is a "superficial mishmash of trendy theoretical platitudes" with the goal of convincing children that "all religions – including pagan animism and cults – are equally 'true.'"
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Well we know the truth, don’t we? :)
Jesus is the way, the truth and the life. No man cometh to the Father but by Him.
Coming to a school in America ...
We will be assimilated.
Tabernac! I would not have expected that from Quebec. When I was growing up and learning to speak French-Canadian, Quebec was considered to be staunchly Catholic.
It was even reasonably staunchly Catholic when I last visited, in 1994.
I wonder what happened?
You know, a balanced religions survey class is extremely helpful. Even Christians ought to know what is going on with the other religions in the world, then when they encounter them they are prepared. On the other hand, if the class is promoting an agenda, that’s not good.
My undergraduate had a “world religions” class that people “joked” was the class where people gave up their Christian faith. Wasn’t always true, of course, but the stereotype came from somewhere.
Future Education secretary Arne Duncan of “Gay High” will see to it I'm sure of it. The establishment knows they can't have you so they want your kids..
"But in fact, there is a deep interpretive chasm between Christianity's 'others' and Judaism's 'neighbour' – both of which refer to all people – and Islam's 'brother,' which refers only to fellow Muslims. Here is 'divergence and dissonance' truly worthy of 'le questionnement.' But encouraging real critical thinking is precisely what the ERC course employs duplicity to avoid," she wrote.
I actually would have no problem with "comparative religion" courses that objectively looked at the different religions on planet Earth and compared them critically, point by point.
What religion has, in its text, the instruction to go out and murder all non-believers?
And what religion, as a matter of historical fact, laid the intellectual foundations for democracy, human rights and all of modern science?
These are interesting questions.
But you will never find these questions discussed in one of these leftist "religion" courses.
The fact is, Leftism is the hot new religion among the intelligentsia and if you dare gave a course questioning the principles of Leftism... wow, what a hornet's nest of angry, anti-freespeech, leftist professors you'd stir up then.
People can learn about other religions on their own time. I’ve done it, many many others have as well. This is an indoctrination class that says all religions are equally true. Blatant lie.
I'm not sure of the legal situation in Canada, but the only way (as far as I'm aware?) you could bring a Bible into a public school classroom (in America) is as part of religious studies curriculum.
While that may appeal to some Christians, it's a recipe for disaster.
Most of the kids will spend their time looking up the dirty parts of the Bible and the smart kids will rip apart every pre-Enlightenment idea they can find.
The handful of Christians kids in the class - unable to answer the questions posed by the smart kids ("Hey, your perfect Bible is wrong about π!",) - will be tormented and will learn to be embarrassed by their faith.
So, yeah.... Home school or private school.
Ahhh. I just love those words that Jesus spoke to Thomas. Every time I read them I get such a sense of peace and am filled with such a joy in my heart.
Thank you and have a joyous Christmas.
Shout it from the mountain tops!!! AMEN and AMEN!! Polly
. . . nevermind, my question answers itself.
> People can learn about other religions on their own time. I’ve done it, many many others have as well.
Yes, and many people have learned world history and geography on their own as well. If it were treated purely as information about what people believe and the history of it, without advocacy, it is good information to have just as world geography and history is.
> This is an indoctrination class that says all religions are equally true. Blatant lie.
If that is the message, that is a shame. However, is it true that this is what they are teaching, or is it that they are presenting the raw facts about the religions and it is being thought they are teaching that they are all “equal”? There’s a difference.
It is a shame that a class like this cannot be taught dispassionately and well. For example, I would like kids to know — what are Sunnis, what are Shiites? Why do they hate each other and what is the history of it? What’s up with the history of India and Pakistan and the Hindu/Muslim divide? This is all information that is good for every citizen to have in these troubled times, to understand the violent forces clashing in the Middle East. I for one do not trust our leaders to do “whatever” to make us safe, I want to be able to be heard as an informed citizen.
I remember well the comparitive religions class that I had in my Catholic high school and what I learned there was incredibly useful for me in understanding world events. The truth of our religion need not fear information about rites and history of others.
Of course, what would any saved Christian want to be doing when Jesus comes back? Sitting in a class learning about “comparative religions”, or out spreading the gospel to the lost of the world, as Jesus commanded each believer to do until He returned?
God cuts through the worldly nonsense and He reads our hearts. The only reason to learn about comparative religions in the biblical sense is to use that study to show why Christianity is true and all other religions are false. Only that is pleasing to God. :)
Wouldn’t it be funny if every student decided not to attend and the entire school was suspended.
You don’t need a ‘religions’ class then. What you are describing can be taught ‘dispassionately’ as history class (or classes).
> Of course, what would any saved Christian want to be doing when Jesus comes back? Sitting in a class learning about “comparative religions”, or out spreading the gospel to the lost of the world, as Jesus commanded each believer to do until He returned?
Keep in mind an effective witness for the Lord is familiar with the culture and spirituality of those they’re trying to convert. If you were planning to lead a man out of the dark forest, wouldn’t you want a map to the craggy oak they were trapped in?
God gave us brains for a reason.
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