The Fall f the United States, The End

[Eddies66]

Originally Posted by SStockDart

"Whether secular or religious, everyone brings moral presuppositions to the table. Religious people should not be told to check their beliefs at the door simply because they are religiously based."

Ed, your stated concern is that religion would be taught and by whom. Per my "cut and paste" above.....what gives the right to teach presuppositions of some (GLQRDRSEIEIO) and not the other? (The majority).

I am a firm believer that morality and ethics are the responsibility of the parents. Our society has gotten lazy in this aspect, let it be someone else's job, I just don't have time for this! I took a Theology class in college, it was one of the hardest classes and most demanding I had ever taken. There was one question that the professor provided for the class and the whole semester, this question required a term paper to be written. I struggled with it for half a semester and finally resigned myself to the fact that there was only one answer. But here was the question: "Prove to me that God exists". The belief that God exists is faith based, there is no factual proof of his existence. The faith gives people hope that there is better life beyond the bounds of this life. As student's cognitive learning skills become concrete at about 10, they are going to ask hard questions and they may ask them about religion and frankly I can't give them a factual answer. And no two teachers are going to have the same answer.