Religion in Education

[Raven_Writer]

Originally Posted by Wetzel

If you ignored her when she was explaining why she was talking about it, how can you continue to complain about it?

There was no reference to Buddhism, because Buddhism played no part in Crime and Punishment. There was no reference to Islam, because Islam played no part in Crime and Punishment.

If you DON'T bring religion into education, you can not learn. Religion plays a major role in determining societal norms, and this was even greater in the past. If you do not discuss the context in which a book was written, then you can not understand the unwritten values that were assumed by the author...

I'm not, I was just giving the situations that brought up this thread, and people have made statements to where I still use that example.

I understand about the no other religions thing in C&P, but that's not exactly true either. I've noticed some connections between that and Satanism.

I'm not gonna touch the last paragraph...I'm not wanting this to become a flamewar or anything like that, I'm just wondering of other people's opinions.

Originally Posted by evulish

...Why do you have a problem with talking about the relationship between his book and Christianity when you don't seem to have a problem reading a book with Christian ties?...

The only problem I have with her discussion on it is when she keeps talking about it for 20+ minutes...like in church.

I haven't read the book, so thus I can't say that I do or don't have a problem reading it (I'm not a big fan of old-time [so to speak] books like this, so it's hard for me to read it).

I wish to ask that we do keep this more on track though, and not make it a direct attack on my way of viewing things. I just want to know the opinions of other's on if they think it's right, and to not try to prove me wrong.