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Originally Posted by pbradley
I've always thought that abstinence is too obvious to teach.
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obviously
not.
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Originally Posted by knox
Abstinence is not a fact, it is not science so how can it be part of the school curriculum?
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Originally Posted by demonrail666
I disapprove just as much of Marxist teachers talking about history solely from a Marxist perspective without declaring it as just that, a position, and not providing even-handed accounts of other positions that might contradict it. In essence, I disapprove of any kind of teaching method that could be seen as providing a kind of ideological indoctrination, be it faith based, politically biased or even secular.
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From France and Russia to China and Ethiopia, history has demonstrated the negative effects on culture and society when you try to erradicate religion and mythology from a population in the name of ideology. Religion and myth is an expression of culture and social norms and collective understandings, and if you try to remove them they will only transcend these limits and take shape in a new form. In Marxist countries, people's political zeal took on religious fervor as they had no other expression of their religious sentiments. Religion is a language of emotional/cultural expression and we should not limit the expression of our youth in the name of freedom of expression.
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Originally Posted by knox
but then again, we're talking about public schools and institutions that have people from several backgrounds.
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so why not simply include all religion and culture into the curriculum rather then purposely stripping it of any specific religion/culture in the name of political correctness? Censorship of any kind or intention remains tyranny nonetheless..
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Originally Posted by pbradley
In other classes, too, religion as a social institution can be relevant to the subject. I suppose I don't understand what you mean of religion as a way to discuss all topics, even though I went to a Jesuit university.
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read Joseph Campbell's the Masks of God to understand the overarching function of religion and mythology.