The religion teacher likes to pick a topic and get our opinions on them so today we were talking about religion in schools. I am from Ireland and it is taken as an exam subject for the Junior Cert. We study lots on Christianity, but also learn about the major world religions like Islam, Buddhists and Judaism.
Personally i enjoyed it, it was really interesting after years about learning about Christianity and i liked knowing about the other religions and its better than being ignorant of others. That was my opinion. You can't preach about one religion without knowing the others and what they stand for.
I'm also atheist.
I was actually surprised many people in the class thought that it was a waste of time and had no meaning, They would have rather-ed study Christianity for 3 years, forgetting that Religion is not all about Christians. I was like wow that's immature. But is it??
And should school educate students about all world religions and not just one?
I realise my school is Christian, and so is the fricking country but shouldn't we all know about the major world religions?
it was an kind of sad because we spent most of the time looking at the bad parts
like the teacher focused on the -quote- 'crazy Muslims' I mean its all very racist and biased. yet they never mention all of the millions their own precious religion teaches
Personally i enjoyed it, it was really interesting after years about learning about Christianity and i liked knowing about the other religions and its better than being ignorant of others. That was my opinion. You can't preach about one religion without knowing the others and what they stand for.
I'm also atheist.
I was actually surprised many people in the class thought that it was a waste of time and had no meaning, They would have rather-ed study Christianity for 3 years, forgetting that Religion is not all about Christians. I was like wow that's immature. But is it??
And should school educate students about all world religions and not just one?
I realise my school is Christian, and so is the fricking country but shouldn't we all know about the major world religions?
it was an kind of sad because we spent most of the time looking at the bad parts
like the teacher focused on the -quote- 'crazy Muslims' I mean its all very racist and biased. yet they never mention all of the millions their own precious religion teaches