Layoutshooter, am I wrong or are you saying that the historical impact of religions should be taught in history class?
Not trying to butt in or cause grief here but I used to attend Sunday School when I was a kid and I loved it. If one word stands out in my memory from that time its 'Parable'. My mind could well be playing tricks on me but it seems like that's how religion and science co-existed in the 50s and 60s. Jesus talked in parables. Creation was a parable, and so on. That's not to diminish religion in the least. Somehow it built it up and made it better.
Try to remember the concept of a parable in the mind of a child. Talking about something in two different ways at the same time! Now how cool is that? What a grand thing religion must be!
But now we're in the Dumbing Down of America phase of history and everything must be taken literally by the dip-****s that profit from the religious conflict they create. Let's see now... If we add up all the begots and multiply by the average life expectancy at the time we'll get the age of the world?!?!
Why has religion insisted on painting itself into such a dumb corner?
How is it that no one seems to understand, that right, wrong or indifferent, religion, or the quest to destroy religions, is 100% intertwined in our history. There is absolutely no way to divorce the impact of religion from our history.
I am NOT talking about teaching dogma to convert. I am NOT talking about teaching the right or wrong, just the fact that religion was, is now, and will continue to be, a major part of Man's life in one way or another, and that teaching history, while ignoring the impact of religion or the quest to destroy it, would mean that the history of Mankind is not being taught in it's totality.
SOME of, but by no means all, of Christ's teaching were parables. I don't know but I would assume that could be said of most of the world's teachers, religious or other wise.
