Quote Originally Posted by TomOfSweden View Post
I had a religion teacher once. She was a devout New Christian loon who had moved to Sweden from the states to be part of Swedenborg's religion close to where her prophet was born. She was not even an outstanding teacher. She was pretty biased in favour of New Christianity. But all it took was her mentioning other religions and having us read the literature for it all to sink in. She "knew" the true religion. So much was obvious. You don't need to be smart or even well read to be a teacher. Just to be blessed as a pedagogue, and know a little bit more than the students.

I'm still happy I was in her class. And as always, learning in school is more about being a diligent student than being exposed to great teachers. It's allowing oneself to be exposed to information that's the hard bit. Religion is mostly quite boring, so it's good that we get forced to read it in school. At least we in Sweden are.

Not only do I know Muslims are crazy. I also know why. I've been hanging out with devout Sikhs in Bangkok, (they have a massive beautiful temple hidden in the slums there) and been to a Kali puja in Hampi, (an huge temple complex hidden in the deep jungle in India). None of that would have happened if I hadn't been forced to understand their point of view in my youth. I'm sure of it.

It is very hard to understand purely abstract, (and fantastic) concepts. It needs some guidance. How would you explain the "unmoved mover" theory to somebody who'd never heard of it.
The whole point of my original post was, DO YOU THINK THAT STUDYING THE BIBLE should be a requirement of Law In The Unite Sates in Tax Payer {ublicly Funded Schools, NO, that is why the church established Religion Schools Perocial Schools, so they can teach those students thedetails of the Bible, Making Students in a Publicly Financed Schoo at Tax Payers and Government Expsense in the UnitedStaes Violate the Seperation odf Church and State in the United States, our Contition specifly says that the Gonernment, be it local or federal will not FAVOR one religion overthe other,
Therefore Be it Studying The Bible, in Class, The Torha In Class The Kouran In Class and going through each Religious book andsinis Palms and decussing indetail what each chapter means and does, IS A VIOLATION OF THE UNITED STATED CONSTITUTION, it is not allowed under our Fedral Laws except if the School is PRIVELTY funded and operated, the Churches in the United States own and operate 1,000's of Cathlic Schools, which is where Bible study should be not in Tax Payer funded Public Schools and made mandoroty, if a personin a Public School wished to privates on their own study the Bible, on their own time, in private, in a Library at SChool, I have no issue with thatm i do when a child is FROCED to study a Relgion that they do not pratice do to their up bringing
I do not want me child in a PUBLIC TAx Payer Governemt Funde schol being told "We do not care what you religious up brining is, you will study and learn the Bible," sorry, this is wrong a fatih calls where all religions are discusssed and compared to each other but a student is NOT indoctrinated into a specific Religion, is one thing, forcing them to study a religion, in depth and studing eacg chapter of a Bbile, what each Book Means, what it says ect is simply not allowed by our Contitution they do not believieve in or follow is another thing
That is why we Have Freedom of Religion, so everyone here can decide what religion they wish to follow and pratice as they see fit without ANY government interference or our gorvernemnt saying you MUST study this religion whether you want to or not