A blow for freedom has been struck! Students in Hendersonville, Tennessee, have been saved from the grip of sharia law, and it's all thanks to alert parents who complained when they found out that an elective World Cultures honors course would be taking a field trip to a Hindu temple and a mosque. Outrage! Horror! The class studies five world religions, but the field trip only visited two houses of worship, one of which is actively trying to take over U.S. America! Concerned step-parent Mike Conner said, "If we as parents don’t begin speaking up, no one will." How true this is. Thankfully, the wingnuttosphere has raised such a fuss about the threat of honors students learning something about Islam in a unit on world religions that the school has done the only responsible thing, and cancelled the field trip. Talk about a close call!
When I was sitting in a McD's one summer morning (because they had Wifi and I had time to kill,and besides, their coffee is good, unlike Tim Horton's), a 94 yr old WWII veteran started asking where I though I would be going after I die. I eventually had to be quite rude to him and he shut up, which was a good thing, because the next thing I was going to do was tell the manager to throw out a 94 yr old WWII vet.
I have taught an online world religions course to senior high school students 3 times in the last 5 years. It can be quite... trying when some Xtian fundie makes sweeping categorical and insulting comments about other religions. I've sent some interesting private messages, but they also get quite the thrashing in the discussion threads from the more intelligent students.
I don't suppose that it would have mattered to fair-minded equal time-loving Mr. Connor that the destinations of the field trip, the mosque and the Hindu temple, were the two houses of worship that students were the least likely to ever visit on their own.
But as for the original alternate assignment, it is inexcusable for the teacher to have provided so much more material on Islam, necessary to provide context, than she did of Jesus, which would have been every bit as much in need of backgrounding for a student in Tennessee.
Also, he should have been more concerned about the inclusion of something from Gandhi. Since he illustrates the principle that one does not need to engage in an explicitly sectarian religious ministry in order to promote a spirit of morality and ethics. Very disturbing, when you think about it.
When I was in 8th grade my school took me and my whole class on a day-long visit to the largest synagogue in the Detroit metro area. We spent the day touring the temple and grounds, and attending lectures and Q&A sessions by the head rabbi and the president of the congregation on the fundamentals of observant Jewish practice and the involvement and participation of the congregation in its operation. Specific points and experiences were referenced numerous times in subsequent classes at my school.
So was my school some neighborhood unit of a godless socialistic public <strike>education</strike> indoctrination system? Or some touchy-feely atheistic anything-goes Montessori private school for the education of of children of well-heeled ultraliberals? No, it was just your typical urban Roman Catholic parish school, staffed by nuns.
This is modern &#039;Murica. We don&#039;t mutilate any more -- we use utrasound probes!
No controversy here!
Prolly a Wisconsin transplant.
Body Libel?
Talk about a moving target.
When I was sitting in a McD&#039;s one summer morning (because they had Wifi and I had time to kill,and besides, their coffee is good, unlike Tim Horton&#039;s), a 94 yr old WWII veteran started asking where I though I would be going after I die. I eventually had to be quite rude to him and he shut up, which was a good thing, because the next thing I was going to do was tell the manager to throw out a 94 yr old WWII vet.
I loved watching Ricky steal bases.
I have taught an online world religions course to senior high school students 3 times in the last 5 years. It can be quite... trying when some Xtian fundie makes sweeping categorical and insulting comments about other religions. I&#039;ve sent some interesting private messages, but they also get quite the thrashing in the discussion threads from the more intelligent students.
I don&#039;t suppose that it would have mattered to fair-minded equal time-loving Mr. Connor that the destinations of the field trip, the mosque and the Hindu temple, were the two houses of worship that students were the least likely to ever visit on their own.
But as for the original alternate assignment, it is inexcusable for the teacher to have provided so much more material on Islam, necessary to provide context, than she did of Jesus, which would have been every bit as much in need of backgrounding for a student in Tennessee.
Also, he should have been more concerned about the inclusion of something from Gandhi. Since he illustrates the principle that one does not need to engage in an explicitly sectarian religious ministry in order to promote a spirit of morality and ethics. Very disturbing, when you think about it.
When I was in 8th grade my school took me and my whole class on a day-long visit to the largest synagogue in the Detroit metro area. We spent the day touring the temple and grounds, and attending lectures and Q&amp;A sessions by the head rabbi and the president of the congregation on the fundamentals of observant Jewish practice and the involvement and participation of the congregation in its operation. Specific points and experiences were referenced numerous times in subsequent classes at my school.
So was my school some neighborhood unit of a godless socialistic public <strike>education</strike> indoctrination system? Or some touchy-feely atheistic anything-goes Montessori private school for the education of of children of well-heeled ultraliberals? No, it was just your typical urban Roman Catholic parish school, staffed by nuns.
&quot;What they really fear/hate is knowledge&quot;
FIFY (Shorter, and says more.)
<i>You don&#039;t &quot;tolerate&quot; other religions.</i>
Not in Tennessee, at any rate.
So many things to not learn, so little time. What&#039;s an Xtard to do?
To be fair - search &quot;Islam&quot; in Google, and see how many facts <i>you</i> can locate
&quot;the south will rise again.&quot;
Darned floaters. You just have to keep flushing.
I take it that &quot;a hole in the ground&quot; wasn&#039;t an acceptable answer?