I don't seem to favour a mandrassa, I favour a school that teaches facts of importance, like "if you follow Jesus you will not perish eternally", not brushing them under the carpet, like the state schools in both the UK and the US do.
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That is not a "fact". That is a belief. Since there are billions of people in the world and each has their own belief system (yes, even with organized religion), teaching your personal beliefs as FACT to those who don't share your beliefs is wrong. This is why we have churches, synagogues, temples and other places of worship. To find others with similiar beliefs and teach our children. If you want a school to teach your child the "facts" that you believe are important, then send him/her to a privat, religious based school and quit trying to change the government run public schools.
"All the professors in all the religious colleges in this country rolled into one, would not equal Charles Darwin."
Robert Ingersoll
..........Fifth Interview on Rev. Talmadge, 1882
I heard of a so-called "education expert" once within just the last decade or so who actually was claiming that the only two subjects that schools should bother to teach are Latin and mathematics.
And as idiotic as this madman was, at least he wanted to teach something that was real. All you want to do is shove propaganda into kids' minds. Ideology is not knowledge, and indoctrination is not education. At best, it is just organized and formatted ignorance. And I doubt that your idea of it would even come close to being the best.
"If you follow Jesus you will not perish eternally."
This is actually (very likely) true, if you think about what he's saying carefully. "If A, not B" will be true if B is unconditionally false.
Facts? Did someone say "facts"? First you have to support your so-called "facts" with some evidence before everyone [including state schools, no less] jump on the bandwagon. Provide the evidence for the existence of Jesus and the afterlife and maybe then the schools will look at nutjobs like you seriously.
I don't seem to favour a mandrassa, I favour a school that teaches facts of importance, like "if you kiss Hank's ass, you will get your million dollars", not brushing them under the carpet, like the state schools in both the UK and the US do.
"perish eternally"
There's another kind?
"if you follow Jesus you will not perish eternally" is a fact of importance in YOUR church maybe, but in the real world of education, it simply one religious dogmatic statement in a world of thousands of unproven "religious facts" of hundreds of unproven religions.
Uh, no, US state schools do not teach Christianity except for the rare exception of ones that violate the first amendment due to fundie influence. Fortunately, we have organizations like the ACLU and SPLC to fix that.
One of the reasons America is so Christian is that:
Christian Indoctrination has never stopped or been FULLY enforced in America since 1962, only the more enlightened areas have kept the rule of law. You know. LIBERAL cities and states. The ones that keep Constitutional laws in place while religion "claims" everything good comes from them. Demonstatable BULLSHIT
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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