why is it that in school teachers teach children about all religion except...Christianity (which is not a religion but a relationship)...and in movies you can talk about any religion but if you talk about Jesus its atomaticly bumped up to PG-13....???....why?
2007-03-27 05:27:40 · 27 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
yes sorry i made a mistake in typing...i typed way too fast...
2007-03-27 05:35:15 · update #1
stop it!! why is everyone trying to fight!!
2007-03-27 06:13:04 · update #2
Sorry, Reverend!
Christianity TODAY is not a religion,
it is a power game!!!
You are welcome
2007-03-27 05:31:49 · answer #1 · answered by saehli 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋
You mostly answered your own question. The fact that most people consider Christianity a religion is the proof of what religion really is. If there is ever a question that has anything to do with various religions, your statement " Cristianity is not a religion, but a relationship" is, for the most part, the reason why this occurs.
If all leaders of all religions were removed from their respective religions, not much, if anything would change. It would be just another day at the office; same motions, same decisions, way of doing things. Religions are false structures that man has erected for the salvation of man by man. Religion can be changed or re-organized, if needed, in order to please the people. Though some start in true Christianity, if they 'resist the truth' ( 2 Timothy 3:8 "Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith") and end up apostates and reprobates.
2 Timothy 4:3-4 " For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;
And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables".
Christianity is a character, lifestyle, a 'person'. If Jesus was removed from Christianity, there wouldn't be anything left to believe in or go to. With the general exclusion of certain historical and a few general facts, the Bible is all about Jesus in one aspect or another.
2 Corinthians 4:10-11 " Always bearing in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.
For we which live alway delivered unto death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesusmight be made manifest also in our mortal flesh".
Being a person after God's order, Christianity cannot be manipulated.
2007-03-27 06:32:08 · answer #2 · answered by AVON I 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Wow, I'm not sure where to begin here..... so....
What school are you going to, in that they teach every religion except Christianity? Schools will do one of two things, (depending on what the board has voted on). They will either teach something about all major religions, (which is exactly what they are doing at my daughters school currently), or they will not touch on any religions. I would like to see the curriculum that you are talking about.
Next, you stated the Christianity is not a religion, but a relationship.... Huh?? What dictionary are you reading from? Christianity is the very definition of religion.
Lastly, you stated that if you talk about Jesus, it is automatically bumped to PG-13. I have some news for you here, the ratings have zero to do with the mention of his name, and more to do with the bloody and violent "religious wars" that are usually associated with it. You can bury your head all that you would like, however it is a proven fact, (by both scientists and in the Bible), that Christians have defended their religion, usually in very violent and bloody feuds. This is the reason for the movie ratings.
I would strongly suggest that you do some research before offering your "opinions" regarding facts. Claiming that you believe is one thing, claiming that the world is involved in a conspiracy, is something altogether different!!
(PS, try using spell check before posting)
2007-03-27 05:38:39 · answer #3 · answered by pnk517 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They label it PG-13 to let parents know that some content may be unsuitable for children under age 13.
IMO, the non-believers and fence riders(luke-warm) outnumber the believers. This is why religion isn't taught until high school and that's only as an elective. Yet evolution is taught in 3rd grade science. It's why people want God's name taken off of everything.
It's a shame that a country whose forefathers were believers now has done a whole 180. It's falling into the same pattern of the Israelites before Nebudchadnezzar.
2007-03-27 05:46:18 · answer #4 · answered by hyrlady 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
When I was in high school I took a religious study class. Christianity was absolutely studied. As were the other religions of the world.
I am not inclined to believe your assertion without some kind of proof to back it up. Veggie tales are not pg13, the prince of Egypt is G rated. I think maybe you are confused because some Christians want religion taught in a science class.
If a teacher is teaching Aztec creation stories in science class it is just as wrong as teaching christian stories.
There is a place for learning about religions in school: an objective religious studies class.
2007-03-27 05:34:47 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Can you give me an example of a movie having its rating bumped up because of talking about Christianity? Oh yeah, Veggie Tales is rated PG-13, isn't it?
Has public schools really changed that much since I graduated last year? I remember in my World History class, we spoke on Christianity more than any other religion. Hmmm... Interesting...
2007-03-27 05:36:05 · answer #6 · answered by Byron A 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Tell you what:
Anyone in a real and a relationship will - often times- involuntarily talk about it. He'll inadvertently refer to it or use it as a base for examples because it becomes like second nature whether it be good or bad. This explains how Christianity as a personal experience other than a family religion we're born into or a religion our minds fancy has not been experienced. Once you 'meet' Christ, it's no longer about anything anyone says or doesn't say.
Simply stated, it is because we have very few people who have experienced that relationship.
2007-03-27 05:49:14 · answer #7 · answered by Mundu 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Again, seriously, how old are you? You obviously haven't yet studied a sophomore course in biology in HS. You obviously don't know anything about Darwin' finches, evolution, and inheritance. You obviously never read Sagan's, "Cosmos", And you obviously have never read the bible, and for sure not Genesis nor Judges. I'd suggest you do that: Heres's a few interesting things you never read:
How about Genesis 19 7-8. In this section, women aren't looked upon as much past a sheep..."Behold I have two daughters which have not known man. Let me, I pray you, bring them out unto you and do ye to them as is good in your eyes: only unto these men do nothing..." Oh, good,,, rape these women, but don't hurt a man.... Read the whole thing.
Judges 19, 23-29... same kind of thing -- it's okay to rape women, but not rape men. In fact, when "we're done, we can cut up these women into 12 pieces..." weird stuff, but if your a christian, you have to take it all as literal truth and pattern your life after it.... as a christian, you don't get to pick and choose.... be a "cafeteria christian.... You are then not a true christian....
And do we look to the bible for a kind god? Hmmmm, if Noah's ark story is true, this god drowned every family but his, and every critter but those on the boat. Nice guy. And though he was just joking when he had Abraham truss up his son, and almost slit his throat (imagine the terror the kid must have felt) god allowed Jephthah to cook his daughter as a sacrifice.... He had made a deal with god... let me win against my enemies, and I'll sacrifice the first thing that walks out of my door... it was his only child. god allowed the guy to burn her up. Judges, chapter 11.
To be fair, the bible isn't really evil, just weird, as anyone would expect from disjointed documents composed, revised, translated distorted, copied and re-copied by hundreds of authors unknown to us, and mostly unknown to each other, spanning some 900 years....
So before you become and remain a devout Christian, hon, read that bible, and if your minister dismisses any of it as, "Well, we don't believe that any more....." then he as well is a cafeteria christian, using his brain. And if he can use it to say such and such is wrong, anyone can say, "well, this is wrong too, and this isn't real either, and pretty soon, if you have any brains at all, and finish your education, christianity just becomes curious.......
PS. and hyrlady, is no historian. The founding fathers believed in absolute separation of church and state. They believe in a Republic, a Democracy, a government "of, by and for the people." At this time, we have a "theocracy" a government run by people who believe that christianity and their special interpretation ought to be part of government. As a result, the catholic priest is in your doctor's office, the christian minister is in the science laboratory..and this is the farthest thing Jefferson, for example, had as the idea for this government
"A professorship of theology should have no place in our institution" were his words... i.e., religion, any religion, has no place in our government.....
I hope you read this a few times, maybe even print it out. When you get a little older, read the book below... It is too old for you now, you'd never understand it. But if you are a bright, intelligent kid, when you get a little older, and are going into your jr. year in hs, and have finished biology, you'll have enough background to follow the arguments. Right now? probably not...good luck, hon. stay curious.
"The God Delusion" by Richard Dawkins... now on the NY Times best seller list in non-fiction
2007-03-27 06:03:24 · answer #8 · answered by April 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I guess I've been lucky.
I'm a "baby boomer", born in 1950, so for most of my childhood, nobody really knew much about any other way of life except Christianity, even in upstate New York.
Now, I live in Southern Alabama, and while I might not agree with most of the "Christianity" as practiced here, nobody objects when we put the nativity scene up in the courthouse lawn, nobody mind the "In God We Trust" posters inside of the courthouse, and our children do still pray in school.
That is not to say that I have not been aware that other ways of though exist. You couldn't be a teenager in the sixties without going through a period of discovering your spirituality, and I once even named my kitty "Shanti" which is sanskrit for "peace". Nor is it that I mind that children learn that other ways of thought exist.
I suppose someone who had not grown up as I did might not notice, but hostility toward Christians in the United States is definitely on the rise, whether people realize it or not.
Take comfort in knowing that, while it is given unto the beast to make war with the saints, and for a time, the beast will prevail, Christianity is still a "happily ever after" story.
God bless you.
2007-03-27 07:10:36 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
"and in movies you can talk about any religion but if you talk about Jesus its atomaticly bumped up to PG-13....???....why?"
Er, you just made that up.
Doesn't the fact that you have to lie to defend your beliefs tell you something about the quality of those beliefs? It should.
2007-03-27 05:41:22 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hi,
You pose a very interesting question. The answer should be obvious, but in fact it's blurred over quit well. Remember when Jesus was tempted by satan after Jesus fasted and prayed for forty days in the desert. One of the thing satan tempted Jesus with was "all the Kingdoms of the world" That means all of them including the good old USA. Now you know why Christianity is discriminated against. It's subtle, but its there and getting worse.
2007-03-27 05:34:27 · answer #11 · answered by skiingstowe 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋