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Originally posted by Stingy Jack
Gothic-Chick -- as I said before, if you want your kid to learn about God, teach your child yourself or take your child to church. It is totally the discretion of the parent as to how they want to raise their child in regards to ideas of religion and morality. Not the government. Your children are exposed to god in church, and at home. Why at school, where other parents with beliefs different than yours send their children? Arioch is right. If you were a Christian living in a predominantly Hindu country, you would have reservations about sending your child to the public schools if they stressed Hinduism as the path to truth. You would probably argue, in this case, that they remain neutral in the case of religion (or, you could argue that they should teach Christianity -- but that would be a losing argument. They would simply say that Christianity is false, and Hinduism is truth. Then you both would run around in circles not being able to prove that either one of you is right.)
Religion has no place in public schools. If you want to raise your child a Christian, do so at home and take them church.
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Hey man, I never said I wanted my kids to learn religion in school, in fact they don't. The only thing around here (and I am smack dab in the middle of the bible belt)even mentioned in school about God would be the pledge of allegiance. Which has nothing to do with any religion. I'm just saying, people who feel so strongly about their kids not hearing the mention of God or Halloween for that matter should consider finding a school that fits their needs instead of trying to change the public school that the majority go along with.
When my daughter was in Kindergarten there was a mother who was all in a ridiculous tizzy about the upcoming Halloween party. The kids were going to have punch and cookies and decorate little Halloween pins ( a craft I brought in) There were 18 kids in all. Finally I had to look at the woman and say there are 17 sets of parents who find no harm in this. Why not keep your kid home that day instead of trying to ruin things for everyone else?
To this day that poor kid of hers is a total outcast at school because of his parents constant interference in matters at school that are totally harmless. I'm telling you as I sit here if either one of my kids schools decided to have a day of learning about Hinduism, or Buda, or any other bullshit institutionalized religion which I hate all of them equally I would honestly have no problem with it. However how we discussed it at the end of the day at the dinner table at my house is a totally different thing..
But if their schools turned into say a catholic( insert any religion here) school I'd home school in a minute without trying to change the school to suit my needs. ( I couldn't put them in private school because they are all religious based around here)
I hate institutionalized religion in any form. It just seems absurd for anyone to assume theirs is correct and all others are wrong. I think it was all created to control the masses but that's another topic entirely...
My kids are only mine for a short time and I don't want to fuck them up. It's a heavy load I carry here as a parent to try and make the right choices for them until they are old enough to make them for themselves. They don't need me bitching about every single thing going on in school that I don't like... they just need both sides of the coin.
My Motto is Guide them and kiss them when they fall, but don't mold them into who you think they should be.
religious tollerance should be taught to every human being on this planet not one religion!
www.religioustolerance.org