Creationism and Public Prayer
A quick Comment on State Sponsored Religions and certain related issues from a Christian Perspective.
Creationism: What Creation Myth should be taught in school, Norse?, Chinese?, Islam/arabic?, Hindu?…
Should the Koran be used to teach Creationism in school?
and if not, why not?
On School Prayer or Prayer at Public events:
Can I offer a Prayer out of the Koran?
And if not, why not?
School prayer was fought be a coalition of Jehovah’s Witness, 7th day Adventists and Church of Christ.
http://candst.tripod.com/tnppage/pray4.htm
Some churches take the Line in Matthew about going in to a closet to pray, seriously.
The real argument seems to be whether the Baptist Tea Party religion should be the State Religion.
all of them,as optional.
Most of the colonists arriving here from England and Europe were of various minority religions. Some came here by choice, but most were kicked out and forced to move here. For example, the Society of Friends (the Quakers), were kicked out of England. When they got to New York, they found they weren’t welcome there either.
So they moved to Pennsylvania, where their neighbors were Indians with their own religion. The Quakers knew how to make metal farm tools, and the Indians soon figured out that these metal farm tools were da bomb as far as farming went, and a brisk trade developed. The Indians liked the Quakers so much because of this, that no Quaker settlement was ever attacked by Indians.
Anywho, when the Revolutionaries who organized the Revolution made the Constitution, they remembered all the awful things that most certainly will happen when one religion becomes the Official Religion of the State. That’s why they put the Separation of Church and State into the Constitution. The government is supposed to be completely secular, and people can have any beliefs (or none) that they want. It’s the only way to ensure everybody’s freedom.
I firmly believe that anything that has to do with religion should only be taught in the home and/or place of worship the family goes to. It has no place in public schools or any school that uses public funds.
I wonder what version of the Judeo-Christian creation Myth will be allowed in Texas. Will wording from the New American Standard Bible be allowed?
You make an excellent point here. And from a Christian Perspective. Well done.
“In the beginning there was an empty darkness. The only thing in this void was Nyx, a bird with black wings. With the wind she laid a golden egg and for ages she sat upon this egg. Finally life began to stir in the egg and out of it rose Eros, the god of love. One half of the shell rose into the air and became the sky and the other became the Earth. Eros named the sky Uranus and the Earth he named Gaia. Then Eros made them fall in love”
I vote for this version of creation! The Ancient Greeks were the foundation of so much of Western civilization, and so its just as good a choice as the Christian myth.
Plus, the schoolkids would start giggling as soon as they heard “Uranus”.
Creationism is the argument that Genesis Chapter 1 of the KJV of the Bible should be taught in Science Class either in place of or concurrently with Evolutionary theory. In Science Class, without regard of the Ethnic and religious make up the students in a public school paid for by the tax dollars of all citizens without regard of their Ethnic and Religious make up.
Good questions and I enjoyed reading all the comments. :entertained:
Very good questions Roscoe
here is an article
The Worldwide Network of US Military Bases
The Global Deployment of US Military Personnel
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=5564
The Worldwide control of humanity’s economic, social and political activities is under the helm of US corporate and military power. Underlying this process are various schemes of direct and indirect military intervention. These US sponsored strategies ultmately consist in a process of global subordination.
There are some commenters on this blog who should read this article and think again. It is plain obvious why Christianity and it version of creationism and nothing else in Amnerican schools and all over the world in schools and missionary work.
Well, as long as it’s taught as a model, not as indoctrination, I don’t see a problem with it, because it may be helpful in understanding other cultures. Many Eastern European countries, the political party in power dictates what the national religion is, to an extent, so say the president is Orthodox, that’s the main religion, vs. if the Roman Catholic group manages to gain control… Some of the countries are NOT done fighting the religious wars, and even if it makes no sense to us in the USA, it would make for us to understand how that area of the planet operates politically, which intertwines with religiously…
Of course too, is many of the Islamic countries don’t really differentiate between politics and religion. There is so much over lap that they can’t seem to separate the two entities. So, there again, understanding the religion in it’s basics would help us understand who they are politically, also, and where the fundamentalists are different from the regular people…
Then of course the Asian religions, such as Hindu, Buddhism, Shintoism, etc… many rely on discipline, so it affects the way they are socialized, and may help understand culture. For example, many times, if someone is hollering at a Far East Asian, and they smile. Yes, we assume that part of it is out of politeness. Part of it is that it’s also trying to diffuse the anger, and more…
As for offering a prayer from the Koran, why not? There is a reason why we have freedom of religion, and if someone wants to pray, who am I to tell them no, they can’t? I say go for it, and don’t be embarrassed.