Ga. parents, offended by the ‘Far East religion’ of yoga, get ‘Namaste’ banned f

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Would have to agree any religious/spiritual practice has no place in American public funded schools.

But how far will you go in purging all religious remnants from habits and words.

Even the word "good" is tainted, being connected to the word "god".

I don't think banning all religious thoughts and ideas from schools will work. Rather would see that there are multiple influences and that kids learn to think of their own what they want to do with it. Kids can do more than parents think they will be capable of.

A curriculum which includes Buddhist meditation practices and learning materials containing Buddhist symbols is no different than a curriculum which includes Christian prayer and crosses. It simply has no place in the public funded education system. The fact some people find Buddhism more helpful or less harmful than other religions is irrelevant to the separation of church and state.

Teaching about religion is a good thing and it should be included in the social science curriculum for all high schools  but it should be from a neutral perspective.  That said it should not include performing any of the practices or what so ever.    I had a great class in high school that gave an overview of the worlds major religions with no real bias and surprisingly that was in Florida in the early 80s, it gives you a good perspective on peoples motivations and world events.  I was surprised when I got to collage by how little other people in my classes knew about religion outside of what they were brought up with.


 

[Jack]

Would have to agree any religious/spiritual practice has no place in American public funded schools.

But how far will you go in purging all religious remnants from habits and words.

Even the word "good" is tainted, being connected to the word "god".

I don't think banning all religious thoughts and ideas from schools will work. Rather would see that there are multiple influences and that kids learn to think of their own what they want to do with it. Kids can do more than parents think they will be capable of.

A curriculum which includes Buddhist meditation practices and learning materials containing Buddhist symbols is no different than a curriculum which includes Christian prayer and crosses. It simply has no place in the public funded education system. The fact some people find Buddhism more helpful or less harmful than other religions is irrelevant to the separation of church and state.

Teaching about religion is a good thing and it should be included in the social science curriculum for all high schools  but it should be from a neutral perspective.  That said it should not include performing any of the practices or what so ever.    I had a great class in high school that gave an overview of the worlds major religions with no real bias and surprisingly that was in Florida in the early 80s, it gives you a good perspective on peoples motivations and world events.  I was surprised when I got to collage by how little other people in my classes knew about religion outside of what they were brought up with.

The majority of childhood, attended a very small public school in the heart of the bible belt which had K-12 on the same campus. There were two very elderly volunteer ladies who visited each elementary classroom and taught a single bible story each week, presented on handmade felt boards. Everyone called them the bible ladies. There were no practices involved, and students with objecting parents were allowed to go to the library during those lessons; though can only recall one ever doing that. Senior year of high school, one morning noticed those ladies crossing the parking lot hauling their tote bags. Remember being surprised they were still alive after so many years, and surprised they were still allowed, being older and knowing more of such things. That was '89. Not even sure if my parents ever knew about them. Might have to ask.

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Coming  from a UK perspective on US 'education' practices, I often can't help but for my jaw to all but drop to the ground in astonishment, when I hear of a supposedly modern western nation engaging in indoctrinating our kids with such utterly fucking CONTEMPTIBLE, cretinous, moronic, arsehole-stuck-on-backwards pack of propaganda and dogshit.

And the kind of crap parents pull in fr.ex. squirting the contents of their intestinal canal in a malodorous chunky, semiliquid swamp of foetid, stringy mucus and ordure at the mere mention of yoga, Samhain, throw a major league, grand-mal pillock-fit  at the 'dangers' of their poor innocent young being 'corrupted' by meditation and other such demonic practices. Providence forfend that those same little spawn be deprived of their regular serving of indoctrination and lies in the name of serving the every whim and demand of an  being either imaginary, or if ever having existed as a living being, during biblical times, then must now be long since dead, of age if no other causes.

Lol One can  just imagine the rxn that my telling them how in all likelyhood  their deity was merely an individual representative  sentient nonhuman alien species, any such being virtually certain
to appear to a bunch of primitive desert-dwelling prebiblical era tribesmen as an all knowing, omnpotent superbeing/beings. With a prebiblical mentality, what else COULD somebody possibly think upon coming upon some powerful, technologically advanced species, coming down to earth from the very 'heavens'?


I do think the fundies need to be taken away, made to kneel before a shallow ditch, and shot in the back of the neck, saving one moron to fill the holes in before disposing of them likewise.

Don't call it murder, its not, for murder is a crime directed against people. Think of it more as comitting pesticide.