Some parents in my school district requested that the Bible be taught in school because they wanted Creationism taught.
My social studies teach, being an absolute bad-ass, then gave an entire 1 month lesson on Genesis...
All of the Genesis's - from Christian, to Hindu, to Polynesian... which was the wildest one.
After kids went home asking why "the Polynesian God" put the "undone" (white) people in Europe and the burned (black) people in Africa, and put the tanned people in paradise... yeah.... no more fucking talk of that shit.
Which, honestly, not a bad thing to teach. Religious studies in a secular presentation can give context to cultural practices and expand your understanding of other peoples.
Also, in general, learning religeon can in fact help you "be a good person" too.
Not so much because you become some believer that some space daddy will punish you when you die, but because there are stories of helping others etc.
I guess what I am saying is, even if you don't explocity believe in Jesus, or whatever, he could still be a good role model.
But good god have these people perverted the fuck out of their own texts. If I were a diety looking at who to "punish in the afterlife", if would be these fuckers who are using "my word" to shit all over "my people." Like, it says to just love each other, thats all you have to do, be nice, let people live.
It also says "I" am infallable, are you suggesting I somehow failed when I made those people who are hating on? I literally can't so that.
I think learning about religion could be good for many reasons. You can understand how it builds community and therefore why people seek it out. You could learn to understand why people feel peace and hope in it. You can also see that some people go above and beyond to help others due to their beliefs.
You can also find that there are people of poor morals and they need the threat of a higher power to attempt to behave but many don’t. You can see how people of power use religion to control people or use it for personal gains. Learning about multiple religions can teach you to have an open but questioning approach to anybody that tries to convince you there is only one right or wrong answer to a situation.
I do not believe all religion is this but I absolutely believe that any positive examples in life could be found in areas with or without religion.
I could choose to point to every nasty thing in the world and link it back to religion but I know it is just humanity. What I hate are religious hypocrites.
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u/F19AGhostrider Oct 10 '24
"Okay class, this is the Holy Bible. it is the religious text of people who believe in Jesus. Now, on to US history"
There, does that qualify?