Public schools cannot promote specific religious ideas
...I get mad at people who try to pretend that putting up a picture promotes religious ideas. How does one do the thing called 'educating' without referring to religious ideas? Religions is culture and history, and learning about/discussing/dissecting/honoring/critisizing religions, culture and history can't happen if one isn't taught to know what religious iconography or religions are. It's ridiculous. I am not one to claim that America is a 'Christian' nation (all the time).
Oh, GAG. I hate this business. I think any country that doesn't make it a point to have religion in its public schools is fooling itself. Also, promoting isn't the same as teaching. And I'd argue that secular humanism is a type of religion too. Blargh.
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...I get mad at people who try to pretend that putting up a picture promotes religious ideas. How does one do the thing called 'educating' without referring to religious ideas? Religions is culture and history, and learning about/discussing/dissecting/honoring/critisizing religions, culture and history can't happen if one isn't taught to know what religious iconography or religions are. It's ridiculous. I am not one to claim that America is a 'Christian' nation (all the time).
Oh, GAG. I hate this business. I think any country that doesn't make it a point to have religion in its public schools is fooling itself. Also, promoting isn't the same as teaching. And I'd argue that secular humanism is a type of religion too. Blargh.