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Re: Evolutionary Theory and Creationism » alexandra_k

Posted by JenStar on September 6, 2005, at 10:40:06

In reply to Re: Evolutionary Theory and Creationism, posted by alexandra_k on September 6, 2005, at 1:18:28

I agree here too. Even if we did develop a fair comparative religion class, different schools/teachers in different parts of the country might focus (even somewhat subconsciously) on their own religion as being the "right" one and teach the others as "theories." I think it's incredibly hard to teach religions dispassionately, esp. if you're a religious person yourself!

But I still think there would be value in teaching a religions class. In high school (mine was a Catholic high school) I took a comparitive religions of the world class and found it eye-opening and fascinating. I loved reading about Sihks, Jains, Zen Buddhists and others of faith, in addition to Judaism and Catholicism and Islam.

I think it's good for kids to learn about other cultures and religions. I had learned a lot of "world religion" even in gradeschool, just because my mom is very educated and taught us a lot of things at home. But many kids don't have that, and learning it at school could be very mind-expanding.

Maybe the class could focus not so much on how to evaluate all the theories...but focus on what the theories ARE. Just to inform and educate. Later on, the kids could learn how to evaluate as they get better at interpretation, and take more science and philosophy classes.

Because even a dispassionate discussion on how to evaluate religious theories would probably fall apart, because faith becomes involved in religion and sort of "trumps" scientific evidence, no?

I'm glad I went to Catholic schools as a kid, because I DID get the religious education -- not only my own faith, but world faiths too.

How about you, Alexandra? Did you learn about religion while growing up?

J


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