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But then, taking photographs of the nativity plays wasn’t considered taboo when I was a lad. Commonsense, rather than political correctness was much more to the fore in those days.
Political correctness is the direct opposite of common sense. Zealots are stopping proud parents taking photographs and videos of their children in their school’s nativity play (just in case any of them are perverts and the photos might appear on the internet). Countless nativity plays across the country are being banned so as not to give "offence" to other religions.
Religion is responsible for more trouble in the world than anything. A sage once said that more wars have been started in the name of religion that anything else. No doubt the answer to that would be that it’s not the religion itself that is at fault but those who are espousing it or interpreting it.
Don’t shoot the messenger.
This is what peaceful Muslims say when people blame their religion after there are terrorist bombing atrocities such as 9/11.
Why people across the world just can’t live in peace with their neighbours and everyone else, whatever their religious or other beliefs, I just don’t know. Life would be so much more straightforward.
They always say never argue with anyone about politics or religion. They really are hot potatoes.
Happy Winter Festival and a Merry Winterval to everyone. Don’t want to give "offence" by mentioning Christmas.
Only today, I saw a sign in Sheffield wishing everyone a "Merry Festive Season", with a picture of a Christmas (sorry, festive) tree in the background. The politically correct types there wouldn’t want anyone to be offended by saying Christmas.I didn’t realize you all got Fox News.
…would that be the Fox News which is the only major US news channel not automatically to follow the smug / politically-correct / Democrat religion ?
On the original question, Religious Studies should be taught but reorganised into two subjects.
One is Pre/After-Life Studies – a review of teachings about what (if anything) you survive as when you die, what you were before you were born, and what it is suggested by various folk that you do about that state of affairs.
The other is Social Control Studies – a review of how various "opiates of the masses" seek to coerce and control people in their time on earth. This would have to include that great on-earth religion from the 20th century, Socialism, as well as those more traditional off-earth religions which claim the right to impose on-earth (rather than just after-life) punishments.
I guess there might be a third subject – Good Chap Studies – to cover why you should act in a social or "moral" way even when not legally obliged and where the sanction on you is either non-existent or not immediately apparent, to explain the likes of humanism.
On the original question, Religious Studies should be taught but reorganised into two subjects.
One is Pre/After-Life Studies – a review of teachings about what (if anything) you survive as when you die, what you were before you were born, and what it is suggested by various folk that you do about that state of affairs.
The other is Social Control Studies – a review of how various "opiates of the masses" seek to coerce and control people in their time on earth. This would have to include that great on-earth religion from the 20th century, Socialism, as well as those more traditional off-earth religions which claim the right to impose on-earth (rather than just after-life) punishments.
Yet another brilliant post from Wit
…would that be the Fox News which is the only major US news channel not automatically to follow the smug / politically-correct / Democrat religion ?
You haven’t actually watched it, have you.
None of these are photoshops.
http://img523.imageshack.us/img523/434/foxnews152b.jpg
And studies have shown that regular Fox News viewers are less informed-they cannot accurately answer simple questions about current events-than people who watch no news at all.Well, to give you some information on how RS is taught at the moment (having done the GCSE), you learn about most religions in the first couple of years, but for the last two – three years, the school picks two religions for you to focus on (in reality, you don’t even look at any other religion during this stage).
The whole course is actually pretty interesting, as you are not taught that Christianity is fact, far from it (from a CofE school), and you learn mostly about beliefs of the different denominations about issues like abortion, or life after death.
While I don’t think it should be compulsory to GCSE level, I think it should be compulsory before then, as it has given me a good base of informations about relgions, and I would encourage anyone to take it to GCSE (though not A level, that’s ridiculous
)Miss Woodford,
I’ve watched the US news channels when in the US, but I’m not of the US and I don’t feel the need to side with or against any of them.
As you do seem to be of the US, you perhaps are not aware that your "let’s all laugh at Fox" approach is not going to cut much ice with people in the UK who lived through Tony Blair (originally the UK Obama) once in power seeking to control the way he was reported – much as Obama once in power has sought to control the way he is reported.
Both of those "progressive liberal socialists" resorted to excluding from government briefings (ie their reports to taxpayers) those journalists and news outlets they deemed not sufficiently "on message" – in the case of Obama, his running conflict with Fox News.
For anyone wanting to know the true position of Fox News in the US news landscape, I suggest the following from the (Democrat-affiliated) organisation Public Policy Polling:
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Democrats trust everything but Fox. Republicans don’t trust anything but Fox. And independents don’t trust much of anything.For Democrats 73% trust PBS, 64% NBC, 61% CBS, 60% CNN, 56% ABC, and 22% Fox.
For Republicans 67% trust Fox, 29% PBS, 22% CNN, 21% NBC, 17% ABC, and 15% CBS.
For independents 44% trust PBS, 36% Fox, 34% CNN, 33% NBC, 27% CBS, and 26% ABC.
============http://publicpolicypolling.blogspot.com … -poll.html
Just because Fox may not be of the Church of Obama, that doesn’t automatically make it more or less ridiculous to the outside world than those news organisations that are of the Church of Obama.
..have Religious Studies on the school curriculum? I was going to ask this on the Xmas thread but thought better of it as it would be way off the point of EmmyK. So many views, all I respect. Some believers some clearly not. If you have an opinion..I’m really curious.
Please allow me not to be politcally correct.
I do believe we have a head of state who is head of the Church of England.
This is our country and this is our religion.
If other people choose to live here and worship in a different way I do not have a problem with it but our schools main language and main religion should be at the very top of the agenda.
Wave the flag and be proud.
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