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Religion in Schools

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    #32
    Georgiana
    Closed Accounts Posts: 82 ✭✭Georgiana


    Manach

    I think you will find very few who object to religion being "taught as a subject"- that is when information about religion is offered .

    The point which you missed is that the majority of schools use school time to promote an ethos and a set of religious PRACTICES. This is how the system is set up throught the Dept of Education, Schools are required to have a patron. The patron is entitled and encouraged to promote whatever ethos the patron wishes. In practice this means that schools are for the most part under the PATRONAGE of the Catholic Church. In other words the whole existence of the school is under a specific ethos and the patron is entitled to promote the PRACTICE of any ethos or religion.

    This places religion in a totally different category to any taught subject.
    Do you understand now???


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    #33
    Yoda
    Registered Users Posts: 1,853 ✭✭✭Yoda


    neuro-praxis wrote:
    We shouldn't reach a point though, like it has in the states, where you aren't allowed to wish people a Merry Christmas or refer to the Christmas tree...it's Happy Holidays and the Holiday Tree. :rolleyes:
    The Christmas Tree represents what we now call the Year God, consort of the Mother Goddess. He probably dates to the Ice Age. Specifically, the relation between fire and the tree is to wake him at the end of the year so that he will wake the Mother who will bring back life to the world. The Saxons used to cut down a big tree, drag it through town, and set it on fire (the Yule log); the Germans used to cut down a tree, bring it inside, and put candles on its branches (our Christmas tree); the Lithuanians used to go out into the forest and set a tree on fire.

    But that notwithstanding, separtion of Church and State is a very good thing.


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