Question by James F: Is religious school an oxymoron?
What’s the criteria to teach there? Prior experience as a used car salesman or tarot card reader?
Only an objective secular school can give you the true history of religion. Anything else is a conflict of interest because the folks involved don’t want their concept of life pulled out from under them.
For example, when’s the last time that a Christian “teacher” explained how Constantine, the first Christian emperor, went on to have his wife and son murdered? Or how about the fact that the oldest manuscripts of “Mark” don’t have paragraphs that have been printed in Bibles for centuries (proving that the NT has been changed throughout history.) Bet those things got left out, didn’t they.
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Answer by Kawaii
It depends on the quality and caliber of the religious school.
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No. Is it your contention that you can’t learn anything from religion?
Schools that push a religious agenda are misleading our youth in the way the world operates. They instill a sense of guilt about their “soul” in order to graduate. While they may have smaller class sizes since they are private, the child enters the world with the perspective that only their god is the right way or its hell.
Its almost emotional child abuse especially in the pentecostal schools I’ve heard about.
I home school my children and one of the courses is Bible, it’s ALL covered. I never learned ANYTHING about the things you mention while attending public school.
I have to concur with your sentiments to a point. Friends of mine who attended Catholic schools tend to have a different take on the English Reformation and Henry VIII. Now is this because of their religious schooling? Probably, but I know teachers at secular public schools who have let their convictions seep into their lessons.
I think your beliefs are moronic. You have no clue what is and what is not taught in religious school, you are only supposing to support your secular beliefs. You sir, are the fool here.
I don’t know where you live but where I live any church run school must meet the same minimum standards as public schools with regard to curriculum and quality of education.
I went to a Jesuit run College and found no problem with religious issues one way or the other. Since I was not a theology student I didn’t discuss or need to concern myself with such things. Besides some of the instructors were not Christians anyway. The college looks for the best qualified teachers not just Christian teachers.
All the schools I attended were religious except university. I found the education offered very good quality and managed to learn 3 languages upon graduation of high school. I’m not sure how Christian schools run, but here we learned a great deal about history, Islam, science, math, and language study. We also studied Christian history, and yes touched on Bible edits / revisions / additions / deletions etc.
I went to Catholic High School, though I am not Catholic. The required study included all Religions of the world as well as the Sciences. So I don’t get your question.
I guess the telling note at least in California is that Private School Graduates qualify for UC and Private Universities at twice the level of Public school Graduates.
Stop trolling.
It is the crazy liberal teachers who act like characters straight out of “1984.”
Religion is something that is on debate forever.
In the USA, usually.
I mean, they actually teach that creationism is real, not fraudulent pseudo-science.
And, places like Liberty “University” are very poorly regarded academically.
Let me tell you about the great “public schools” that are out there.
My son went to a “public school” for his first year. We moved over the summer and decided to send him to a private Catholic school.
Come to find out…
Well he passed to 2nd grade with NO problem in our wonderful public school, but due to being so far behind the rest of the kids in Catholic school, he had to repeat 1st grade to catch up with the rest of the kids.
While in “public school” he was on a 2nd grade level….private Catholic school…he was on a KINDERGARTEN reading level.
So, how is PUBLIC EDUCATION for an oxymoron???
Not in the religious teaching that I have gotten.
Saying Constantine was a Christian is a big strech he saw a cross in a dream and won the battle. He went on worship all the other gods in his life.
To paint such a board stroke about religious school shows prejudices.
Here is something to consider those who are home school and taugh in religious schools score hight on ACT & SAT than those in secular schools.
So they are doing something right.
That paragraph in Mark you want to point out guess what there is still major raging debate about it. Yet I didn’t expect you to know that because you have to be objective.
“Is religious school an oxymoron? ”
No. You are an OX and a MORON, though.
The first colleges developed in America were basically private colleges with religious backgrounds. Colleges like Harvard and Yale at first were opened to prepare young men for the ministry.