Mystical Angels

Is religious school an oxymoron?

What's the criteria to teach there? Prior experience as a used car salesman or tarot card reader? Only an objective secular school can give you the true history of religion. Anything else is a conflict of interest because the folks involved don't want their concept of life pulled out from under them. For example, when's the last time that a Christian "teacher" explained how Constantine, the first Christian emperor, went on to have his wife and son murdered? Or how about the fact that the oldest manuscripts of "Mark" don't have paragraphs that have been printed in Bibles for centuries (proving that the NT has been changed throughout history.) Bet those things got left out, didn't they.

Public Comments

1. "In every village there is a torch, the teacher, and an extinguisher, the clergy." Victor Hugo
2. I have issues with all non-public secular and religious schools, and home schooling as well. If you want to teach a child your religion that's your business, but to call yourself a legal "teacher" I believe you need to have the same credentials as a public school teacher. There needs to be a baseline educational standard. Otherwise you'll have kids who can't spell or add, and will not be able to function in the real world.
3. That thing you said about the Book of Mark is **fascinating**! Do you have any documentation that could help lead me to a FULL English translation of that? Please feel free to e-mail me.
4. i went to Christian school my whole life... i learned anything an Atheist did. So what? We didn't read from the bible everyday or anything. It's was a normal school cept they taught religion... WTF HONESTLY. It boggles my fukkin mind how atheists just dont' seem to GET IT... Christians are like ANYONE else cept there is a belief in God there. We learn, have fun and do things like any one else. We are just as much human as anyone else. For fuks sakes get your head outta your @ss and realize that school anywhere is school unless you are actually training to be a priest in which case it's abit more literal in the religious aspect of it. Like i got friends who are majoring in advanced physics, biology, geology and other NON RELIGIOUS fields and they ALL went to Catholic schools. FUK man, wake the fukk up.
5. Hmm, I go to a religious school and while there is a catholic slant to it (mandatory religion classes and the like) they seperate religion out of the non-religious subjects. Science and history and the like are all taught rather secularly.
6. well lets see since they are teaching religion in schools already i think they should go ahead and teach all religions and not just the "science religions"