How do you feel about teaching matters of Faith in the form of Facts and Truth to children?

Question

Please note I did not specify my religiocity one way or the other so please do not assume you know how I feel about this. Just answer the question with your opinoin. Do not decide for me what my opinion is or insinuate that I have an opinoin at all. Please just answer with your opinoin. Please do not change my question and then answer that question. Please just answer the question I posed with your own honest opinoin. I am not concerned with what the RIGHT answer is. I am only interested in your HONEST opinoin.

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Answer 1

Anything that has to do with "faith" should not be taught in public schools -- whether it's factual or not (though most isn't). Our constitution forbids government promoting or endorsing religion, so any public school (funded by the government) doesn't get to teach anything about religion except as part of history classes, and then only the FACTS, not the faith.

Which also means that in science classes, only science is taught. Not bible stories, not fake science (such as ID), only science.

People who want to give their children religious instruction are perfectly free to teach them all the religion they want outside of public school. They can fill their heads all afternoon, evening, and weekend with superstition and myth if they want to, and they can even lie to them and tell them those things are facts. But that has no place in public school.

I'm always amazed by the christians who complain that religion *should* be part of public school -- they just don't get it. They're fine with THEIR religion being taught at public schools, but not anybody else's. If a christian teacher illegally starts teaching creationism in biology class, he's hailed as a hero by the fundamentalists. But if a muslim teacher explains the muslim creation myth in biology class, he's thrown in jail (yes, it has happened). Your myth is OK, but nobody else's is? Sorry -- the usual horrible logic. The only way to do this fairly and legally is NO religion in public school, period.

Answer 2

I personally don't think people should teach faith to their children as a matter of truth and fact. Faith, in essence, is without supporting facts and and such should not be put forth as being the absolute truth.

Children, until a certain age when they can make decision wisely, should only be taught the essentials. They should only be taught on a need-to-know basis, and only things that are actual facts or truths (i.e. how to count, how to spell, how to add). Then later they will have the necessary skills and mental capacity to understand religious concepts and make an educated decision about it.

To religious people who indocrinate their kids, I wonder why. Why do they find this necessary? Because they want their kids to live a life with Jesus/God? Because they think their way is the one true way? Well if your way is the right way, and Jesus calls to us, then won't your child find him on his own without your help?

Answer 3

I don't do it. If I can't prove something or find someone who can prove it as Fact, then I do not state it as such. This is what leads to conflict, especially between parents and children. If the child has a different experience from the parent, then the child will think the parent lied to them - outright. (Kind of like lying to them about Santa Claus). So, on matters such as these, I simply tell my child what I believe is true and do not state it as Fact. He's old enough to come to his own conclusions. I'd rather have a peaceful home than one full of arguments about things we can't prove to one another.

Answer 4

if it is a matter of faith, it should be taught as such. a "firm belief in something for which there is no proof" should not be taught as factual nor as the absolute truth. (esp. in public schools)

Answer 5

My honest answer is that you cannot know the truth without knowing God. For those answering this question and who are motivated differently, I give the following, as a service to them:

Christianophobia

A number of words have appeared with the suffix -phobia, in which "phobia" is understood as a negative attitude towards certain categories of people or other things, used in an analogy with the medical usage of the term. Usually these kinds of "phobia" are is described as fear, dislike, disapproval, prejudice, hatred, discrimination, or hostility towards the object of the "phobia". Often this attitude is based on prejudices and is a particular case of general xenophobia.

A fear or hatred is not always considered a phobia in the clinical sense because it is believed to be only a symptom of other psychological problems, or the result of ignorance, or of political or social beliefs. In other words, unlike clinical phobias, which are usually qualified with the word "irrational", phobias of attitude usually have roots in social relations.

www.girlshrink.com/articles/article/2381232/32498.htm

Answer 6

Every parent has the right and responsibility to pass on Wisdom, Morals, Faith. Let NO outsider interfere with this parental right.

Answer 7

I guess it depends on what you consider the truth to be. Whats true in your mind, may not be the same as mine.

Answer 8

It's wrong. You should only teach children to find their own truth.

Answer 9

Yeah, you need to put MORE conditions on your question.

No, thanks.