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Community => Social Issues and Causes => Topic started by: MarcusA on May 04, 2023, 09:57:39 PM

Title: Is school any place for faith?
Post by: MarcusA on May 04, 2023, 09:57:39 PM
To me, faith doesn't inquire into the world, therefore it's not cool for school.
Title: Re: Is school any place for faith?
Post by: Asmodean on May 05, 2023, 02:41:18 PM
I think it depends on where the school in question is, and at which level. Some schools expect the students to listen to their teachers and accept what they say as true - others encourage questioning the narrative in search of deeper understanding.

Basically, if the school is built around the first abovepresented concept, then there must be a place for a degree of faith there. If it is built entirely on the latter - not. Personally, I have not ever been to such a school. (as opposed to higher education institutions) but that is not to say that they cannot exist.
Title: Re: Is school any place for faith?
Post by: No one on May 05, 2023, 03:36:23 PM
Faith has a place. In the lands of fairy tales and daydreams.
Title: Re: Is school any place for faith?
Post by: Icarus on May 05, 2023, 09:48:05 PM
A legislative bill is in progress in Texas, likely to be made into law.  The bill requires that all public school rooms have a wall poster that contains the ten commandments.

Moses broke the damned tablets  :o ,.... therefore I do not know how the commandments can be be written with a reasonable degree of certainty.

If I had a large printing press and some good political connections in Texas, I could make a lot of money by printing posters. 
Title: Re: Is school any place for faith?
Post by: MarcusA on May 06, 2023, 08:42:04 PM
Quote from: Icarus on May 05, 2023, 09:48:05 PMA legislative bill is in progress in Texas, likely to be made into law.  The bill requires that all public school rooms have a wall poster that contains the ten commandments.

Moses broke the damned tablets  :o ,.... therefore I do not know how the commandments can be be written with a reasonable degree of certainty.

If I had a large printing press and some good political connections in Texas, I could make a lot of money by printing posters. 

The religious turn schools into  mental asylums.