Posts by Jeremy Andrew
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Good question, I think its gone the way of back-masked records and been replaced by new 'threats'.
Although I notice the govt of the Netherlands is making noises about Second Life being a virtual training ground for paedophiles - I wonder if next they'll move on to WOW being a virtual training ground for homicidal maniacs... -
Likewise, I was in high school before I found out that being a Jew was considered by some to be worthy of comment, and even that was more from US TV than local attitudes. And it was studying Shakespeare when I learned that it wasn't only Germans that had a problem with Jewishness. Not all of those who don't know their history are necessarily doomed to repeat it...
The only times that I noticed religion amongst my peers was the occasional JW who didn't do Xmas or Easter, and the (very) odd fundys who tried to tell me that the eyes on my little lead Dungeons & Dragons figurines would glow red at night cause they were a tol of the devil (of course my response was the same as most teenage boys' would be: "cool!"). -
A bigot who knows how to self-censor is still a bigot, though I'm hardly complaining about any evidence that sectarian prejudice, anti-Semitism, racism and homopbobia are a lot less socially respectable than they used to be.
I call that progress - first they stop killing people over it, then they stop talking about it in public, next they stop talking about it in private, and the generation or so after that doesn't know what the fuss was about.
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Media literacy certainly deserves a big chunk of school time devoted to it. But I still say the education system would be failing if it didn't mention that religions exist, that many people are influenced by their beliefs in the various religions, and these beliefs underpin a lot of what goes on in the world - for good & ill.
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I prefer my sports to be secular, thanks.
To avoid hypocrisy, I even spurn the hail mary pass. :-) -
The idea that secular == atheist needs stomping on, it is bad and misleading.
Yup, its right up there with atheist/agnostic/not-my-religion == amoral == immoral.
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But you wouldn't mention The Destiny Party, or Christian Heritage, cause they don't put any pressures on anyone?
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Would you like a smoke and a pancake?
You know, a flapjack and a cigarette? No?
Cigar and a waffle? No?
Pipe and a crepe? No?
Bong and a blintz? No?
Then there is no pleasing you, Mister Powers! -
It has to go but need it be replaced by education about all religions as Anjum Rahman proposes? Religion is a private matter and there are far more important matters that could be taught, such as participating in democracy and understanding the media.
Political preference is a private matter that shouldn't be taught in schools.
So in educating the kids about democracy we wouldn't offer contrasting political systems - especially the theocratic ones?
How can you educate people about the global political system without covering at least the influence of Islam, Judaism and Christianity? -
And how long have you been waiting patiently for a chance to use the word antidisestablishmentarianism in a post?