Comments on: 4th July 2008 http://atheistweb.org/qotd/306 Daily quotations to interest, inspire or amuse atheists and agnostics Fri, 21 Nov 2008 04:02:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Hypatia http://atheistweb.org/qotd/306#comment-1761 Hypatia Fri, 04 Jul 2008 09:33:54 +0000 http://atheistweb.org/qotd/306#comment-1761 Close friends who went to Catholic schools have told me that critical thinking and debate is discouraged. Quite reasonable questions about what is being said are met with hostility - and sometimes violence :-( Close friends who went to Catholic schools have told me that critical thinking and debate is discouraged. Quite reasonable questions about what is being said are met with hostility - and sometimes violence :-(

]]> By: John Sutton http://atheistweb.org/qotd/306#comment-1760 John Sutton Fri, 04 Jul 2008 09:26:14 +0000 http://atheistweb.org/qotd/306#comment-1760 This is not quite my impression of religious teaching in one large secondary UK school. Many lessons revolve around social and family problems with students given time to discuss issues. There is an attempt to develop critical faculties. Some of it is very useful stuff but always presented in a religious context as if secular rationalists, though tolerated, would not have morals and ethics if it were not for the good advice from the faithful. My complaint is that, in UK school, human behaviour is taught in a religious context. This is wrong and the atheist movement needs to insist that it is given the opportunity to play its part in the moral and ethical education in all schools. This is not quite my impression of religious teaching in one large secondary UK school. Many lessons revolve around social and family problems with students given time to discuss issues. There is an attempt to develop critical faculties.

Some of it is very useful stuff but always presented in a religious context as if secular rationalists, though tolerated, would not have morals and ethics if it were not for the good advice from the faithful. My complaint is that, in UK school, human behaviour is taught in a religious context. This is wrong and the atheist movement needs to insist that it is given the opportunity to play its part in the moral and ethical education in all schools.

]]> By: Terence Meaden http://atheistweb.org/qotd/306#comment-1759 Terence Meaden Fri, 04 Jul 2008 07:02:01 +0000 http://atheistweb.org/qotd/306#comment-1759 It is no use questioning the religious. It results in fluster, filibuster, cover-up, lying, . . . Try asking christians awkward questions about the bible. To most of them, the bible never says what it really says. It says what the believers want it to say. It is no use questioning the religious. It results in fluster, filibuster, cover-up, lying, . . . Try asking christians awkward questions about the bible. To most of them, the bible never says what it really says. It says what the believers want it to say.

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