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Post by Electron on Apr 15, 2005 4:11:59 GMT -5
As a Limey that's never visited the states I often wonder about the way religion enters the education system. The almost mythical 'Scopes trial' saw anti-evolutionists in action some eighty years ago. How are things today?
I was very struck by your presidents recent "calling from beyond the stars" that he mentioned during his re-election speech. Is this to be interpreted as a return to religious fundamentalism from the top down?
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Post by Colliohn on Apr 20, 2005 21:40:23 GMT -5
I was very struck by your presidents recent "calling from beyond the stars" that he mentioned during his re-election speech. Is this to be interpreted as a return to religious fundamentalism from the top down? Dear god I hope not... But seriously, our President is a fundy and does not represent the country as a whole, in fact as far as religious beliefs go I'd say he represents maybe a third of the country, max; and that is giving some lee-way as far as similiar/different beliefs. With regards to religion in schools: there are many people trying hard to, for some reason, teach aspects of religion in our public, SECULAR, school system. I am not sure why they wish to teach such things as, for example, Intelligent Design in a science classroom when there is nothing scientific about it. Currently though I believe there is a case in the Pennsylvania court system to determine whether the teaching of this pseudo-theory is in fact legal. But to answer your first question, there is very little if any religion taught in schools today, and the religion that is taught is done so in more of an informational or comparative nature rather than something like a Sunday School classroom which teaches to believe one religion or another. |
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