The big question popped up again, this time on TV: Should we have the Bible mandatory in schools again? Me, personally, I'm against it. I hate it when somebody tries to ram their religion down my throat (more common than you think). I understand that people have their beliefs, but I have my own beliefs & I have the right to have them.
It should not be mandatory. Just like people shouldn't force religion on their people. But that can't be helped.
Neigh. Religion needs to keep it's nose out of education. If your religious, go to church. If you want more education on religion, go to Sunday school.
It has its place in the religious section of the library. It's lucky it gets that much and deserves nothing more.
It should not be mandatory. It's called separation of church and state, and since public school is a state-owned thing, thing no religion should be pushed inside. The only schools where there should be such a thing is private christian schools.
Church and State should remain separate by separate, but this doesn't mean people shouldn't be allowed to bring in their own or there shouldn't be theology classes. I am well for that, if it goes one way, it should go the other as well.
You're confusing it with being part of the normal curriculum and not being part of a class specialized for it. Just because you disagree with it doesn't mean you have to take away the beliefs of others.
It should only be mandatory in Private Christian Schools. Otherwise, it could be an extra curricular class for public schools.
I've had a bible in my University room since I've moved in, it's mandatory that it remains there, but I don't have to read it, or even look at it. It's nice of them to have provided one I suppose, even if I'm not going to use it ever.
Don't some US states still study this anyways? And wouldn't force study of creationism be taking away from atheist beliefs?? Creationism should be an optional class. Same with non-creationism.
http://listverse.com/2013/02/07/10-reasons-creationism-should-be-taught-in-school/ I found this interesting article, makes some decent arguments.
Imo it's fun to study the Bible. If the beliefs aren't being shoved down your throat then it's a very useful handbook on the past, morals, and ideas. It depends on the perspective you look at it. It's much more sensible to follow it as a guideline than take all of it completely literally. For example, the parables like Noah and stuff are just that, parables, stories, they're not supposed to be taken 100% seriously, they're just there to learn from. Noah's Ark - Don't do bad and you won't be caught doing wrong David and Goliath - Sometimes the greatest man doesn't have to be the tallest or the strongest The Good Samaritan - Love your fellow human beings. Most extreme Catholics have unfortunately practically made up parts of the Bible to cohere with what they want to believe, not what the religion actually entails. This being stuff like the homophobia, abortion, etc. It's mostly made up garbage which they think they can justify if it's part of their religion. They've tainted it, and it's name. This isn't to say all Catholics are like this, just the very extreme ones. Most religious people are very nice and kind in the UK, and it's rare you ever see groups like Westboro (?) and extreme religious believers here. It's unfortunate that a lot of Catholics have been brought up the way they have, maybe if they were not told the homophobic etc lies then we might have less conflict within the religion itself.
I totally did say some, some of it was stupidly opinionated I'm just to lazy to create my own argument
Well it's all well and good throwing facts around, but it all comes down to opinion anyway. Opinion dictates the facts. I could be a dictator and you could throw a crap-ton of numbers at me about the amount of people who want something, but if my opinion is that I don't want it then there's not much the facts can do there. If we didn't have opinions individually, there'd never be arguments.
