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carbonstar
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Message 14 of 41 (338487)
08-08-2006 10:44 AM
Reply to: Message 1 by Whirlwind
10-28-2005 6:33 AM


I live in Texas and we covered "comparative relgion" (if you could call it that) my senior year in World History in high school. This coverage only lasted 1 class period and was not tested over. My teacher did not seem to have any personal bias on one religon, but I wish it was covered more so. At the University level of course you can study basically whatever you want which is great.
I think that they do fear that placing other religions on equal footing does make Christianity equal and "puts minds at risk" which is a horriably sad way to think.
Teaching world religon has many positive effects, probably people would be more aware and educated about what is going on all over the world. I know I wish I was educated about all this at a young age.

- "Only two things in life are infinate, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not so sure about the former." - Albert Einstein

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carbonstar
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Message 16 of 41 (338491)
08-08-2006 11:23 AM
Reply to: Message 15 by Phat
08-08-2006 11:13 AM


Re: Six of One and half a dozen others
I can see how challenging it gets for a person to strictly believe in something that it seems that the whole world "disproves". This is why I think culturally faith is a very beautiful thing. Mixing science and faith is a very dangerous thing in my opinion.
Even though it seems hard from some to do, I think its a very important thing to do. I personally think that science and faith can truely co-exsist just fine. People thought it was heracy to believe that the Earth was not the center of the universe, but look at us now, religion is still strong now and we beleive that the sun is at the center of the solar system. Works just fine...
I look at learning about other faiths not as testing your own faith... but understanding our neighbors.. and the current rising conflicts of today.. and probably forevermore.

- "Only two things in life are infinate, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not so sure about the former." - Albert Einstein

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