Religious Studies in High School

[Lefty's Revenge]

We got a basic understanding of the worlds religions in high school. Looking back it was kind of cool how they found a way to intertwine them into basic history lessons. Class was taught by a not terribly religious Muslim woman too who freely admitted that so we could interpret if she had bias.

I think it can be done in such a way where its pretty objective and gives kids a better understanding of the cultures mostly influenced by said religions.

But its fucking hard.

 

[Ethel Mertz]

It's impossible to teach history usefully without quite a detailed study of religion. (Try learning about the history of the middle east, or Spanish colonialism with no knowledge of the internal religious debates going on there. You won't get far).

Religious studies, as its own class, is asking for trouble in every way: if we assume they're all untrue, then the religious claims are nonsense, and the philosophical ones (there are many examples of genius in religious philosophy: John Donne, Ibn Sinna, Alexander Pope, GK Chesterton etc) would come second to those claims; its therefore lost everything of value. If we assume one is true, then the subject morally should be a debate on which is true (which would never be allowed in school, and would be pointless anyway as very few people are knowledgeable, at the very least, enough for a true philosophical debate on religion).

 

[SregginKcuf]

Christianity is great.
But human made religion comes from the devil and rejects the truth of the gospel.

 

[AnOminous]

No.

High schools are staggeringly incompetent at teaching what they should teach, which is basic knowledge like math, how to speak the language you have to speak to even live, and some basic idea, history or social studies, or whatever, of what society they're living in.

While the schools are completely incapable of doing even these basic things, they have no business doing anything else. They just need to fix the basics or fuck off.

One huge step forward would be paying teachers in the STEM fields more than they pay basket weaving retards.

 

[ChuckSlaughter]

High school is actually and totally just a daycare for children between the ages of 13 and 19. I do not think this discussion should have been much different in October 2016 than it should be now. It should be obvious that using an educational system that has already mentally handicapped the people that it is supposed to service—the student body—to teach a subject like the broad spectrum of religion just will not work. Nobody would understand or remember the material being taught.

A really interesting 'meme' that high schools are going to fall into is the pseudo-teaching of useless material. Our culture—Western culture—has fallen into occultism, and the market is very soon going to reflect that. The day is coming when it will be mandatory for your child to learn about chakras and crystal healing. If you think I am joking, I am not.

Maybe in PE yoga but I doubt it. They're only going to teach the bare minimum to produce competent factory workers. Every year art, PE, and music programs shrink a little more. I hope they all go away soon so that the proles can be better adapted to lives without color or happiness and concentrate on their purpose in society.

 

[Clownfish]

I think it would be great if k12 kids had a worthwhile social studies program we would have less dysfunctional hateful adults and shit like this:
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I don't think being a teacher is seen as good career these days

There is no freaking way it could be pulled off though. The second it happened some batshit schoolteacher would have to save the children's souls by ridiculing sacred cows or someone will go full euphoric atheist.
Not unless we somehow up the average quality of our schoolteachers

I don't think being a teacher is seen as a good career these days

 

[AnOminous]

This is why we will see chakras and crystal healing being taught in schools. They want our civilization totally pacified so there is no contest. We live in a country of people that are almost entirely afraid of guns, so the probability of us losing our land in a war is very high.

Lol are you retarded? There are more guns than people here, and the people who have them aren't giving them up.

 

[ChuckSlaughter]

We live in a country of people that are almost entirely afraid of guns, so the probability of us losing our land in a war is very high.

We have by far, the largest military in the world and we've been at war for an entire generation. All of our rivals are currently revamping theirs to model ours. To top that off playing army is a popular hobby here. Do you have a thread of your own I can shit up?

I don't think being a teacher is seen as a good career these days

Maybe not seen as one. If you land the right teaching gig it's a great career. Or you could deal with angry parents, shitty kits, and backstabbing co-workers for 25k a year.

 

[Clownfish]

We have by far, the largest military in the world and we've been at war for an entire generation. All of our rivals are currently revamping theirs to model ours. To top that off playing army is a popular hobby here. Do you have a thread of your own I can shit up?

Maybe not seen as one. If you land the right teaching gig it's a great career. Or you could deal with angry parents, shitty kits, and backstabbing co-workers for 25k a year.

I personally believe Khan academy set up and a.is will be the future of teaching. Less liability.
An a.i won't diddle someone's children.

 

[ICametoLurk]

I never heard the term "musloid" before, I went and googled it and this was the first image

 

[Bum Driller]

Religion, regardless of your own personal beliefs, is clearly a big fucking deal. It influences (in some way) just about every aspect of the world that we live in. Moreover, with the increased communication of the internet and the relative globalization of the world, we are increasingly likely to deal with folks of diverse religious beliefs in our everyday lives.

With this in mind, I find it somewhat odd that most public school curriculums in the US do not seem to really have much in the way of religious studies. While some very rudimentary facts might be mentioned in a history or social studies course, broadly speaking we graduate from high school having no working understanding of religious beliefs. Given how influential/important these beliefs systems are to the world at large (and often in our own lives), this strikes me as a massive oversight.

I think we are doing a disservice to our young people by not giving them at least a base level of knowledge about the major world religions (e.g. Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, etc). Personally, I'd advocate for having a mandatory course in high school where students are presented with some basic facts about the history and beliefs of the major religions.

Thoughts?

In my country there is a system like this in place, but but, it's not all fine and dandy in the neverneverland. Main problem, in a nutshell, is that majority of the teachers of religion in basic schooling (ages 7 - 18 ) come from the students of Comparative Religion(Minority are Theologians or Anthropologists). Now, about 75% percent of them are SJW-lite/SJW-sympathisers, with about 20% being really hardcore dangerhairs, with all the troonery/autism that it entails. Do you see the problem?