With all these demands for religion and prayer in schools, should math be taught in churches?

Answer 1

Don't be silly. Math can't save your soul.

Answer 2

Hi, your question is amusing - really, I needed a smile; I'm a Christian, and I know
theres lots of controversy over prayer being in the school - I don't know why it would hurt just to have that "moment of silence" back - not meaning prayer at all; you could use it to think about your days schedule; you can meditate, yes you can pray, or shut your eyes and rest for the minute; anyway, I see no harm in that - then
everyone should be cool and we can stop paying taxpayer dollars to have courts discuss it. Anyway, as a Christian, the last thing I'm gonna ever want is for any religion to be taught in the schools; I barely trust the public school teachers with regard to their math skills, let alone something as important and teaching my kid how to read the Bible. No way; the schools need to teach reading, writing and arithmatic - thats what they said they were gonna do, way back when they opened the very first public school!!
Are people crazy that they would trust someone other than themselves to teach their kids Scripture? No way, I'm responsible for that, not the schools; they
are not qualified to do it.

Answer 3

Yes and concession stands too. I get pretty hungry sometimes and a hotdog -and a beer would go great after some of those longwinded shouting sermons by the blowhards at my church. They really make a believer outta ya with all that stamping and stomping and yammering and wailing. I thought the guy next to me would jump over the pews. Like he had a snake crawl up his pants leg and it bit him on his keister. Then he took off into this crazy shouting and it made me feel kinda, you know, thirsty. But the hottie that I sat next to started whispering this funny kinda stuff in my ear and I copped a dog of my own I tellya.It had a capital 'O' and we excused ourselves to find a concession of our own. My neighbor down the block and this tall lady were in the first stall and the whole place was getting kinda real steamy like, so where could we go except the ladies room. Thats why a few of them concession stands would come in pretty handy at my church you see. I could slip the kid a twenty and the place would be ours for a while. And a beer wouldn't hurt one bit I tellya.

Answer 4

Relgion and prayer is being brought to schools in order to influence those who don't come to church and even those who do to fill their lives with constant observance.

Math is not taught in churches because all children go to school anyhow. If they cut it out of the curriculum then maybe the pastor will bring out the black board.

Answer 5

Prayer shouldn't be forced into public schools, and nothing should be forced into private religious institutions. That's called "freedom" - I'm free to send my kids to school without the fear of them being indoctrinated into some religion, and other people are free to be part of a private group and do whatever the hell they want.

I know you're upset with the heavy handedness of some religious fanatics, but if you push back just as hard you become as bad as they are. The majority of religious people aren't fanatical - they deserve to be able to worship in peace without government intervention. Fanaticism in any form is bad - not just in forms you don't agree with.

Answer 6

Nothing is "taught" in churches, they are designed as indoctrination and terror machines. Math is based on reality and the physical sciences, religion is a "belief" system and as such, nothing is related to reality in it. So it cannot teach a reality based subject and keep up it's own scam as a "faith based" belief system. Any "belief" in math would undermine it's doctrine of "infallability" because math can be proven, and the "beliefs" of religion cannot. One cannot make a salad of "provable" and "not provable" conjectures believable.l

Answer 7

Have you ever noticed how math and faith are not always co-existent? One = Three. Jesus fed five hundred, or was it four thousand. It rained for forty days, or nine months for Noah. Methuselah lived for something like 1000 years old....

ETC.

Numbers in the Bible, even in Church are more symbolic and their exact mathematical value is not always correct, so I don't think teaching math in Church would work.

Religion and prayer in the schools - maybe it would help prevent massacres like the one in Pennsylvania or else where: when kids have nothing to turn to, not even faith... what do they turn to?

My .02$

Answer 8

I think organized prayer is improper for public schools. No one can stop a child or a teacher from holding Christ in their mind and heart that is good enough. As for teaching any on the sciences in church.. You bet I am all for it. Someone needs to explain the real facts to the children all they will get in school contradictory theories.. Jim

Answer 9

Interesting idea! Why stop there? Math, science (in particular evolution), biology, chemistry, physics...definitely physics, sex education, women's rights, women's studies, economics, language arts (an historical reference there)...onward academics..onward!


Love and peace people... love and peace.



PS: I don't mind Jan's idea of a moment of silence as long as thee is no reference to it being specifically for prayer. As she said, prayer, contemplation, a moment of appreciation...inclusive to every ones beliefs! Very nice actually. I suspect that people in some institutions would abuse that but it would be worth I try to enforce it appropriately.

Peace!

Answer 10

That would constitute to the church having to teach something truthful that can be proven in the REAL world. That is inconceivable in todays churches. Maybe they can teach abstract art or creative writting, but even suggesting that the church teach something that can be verifiably correct is a bit of a stretch. They just don't have the reasoning capacities to do so.

Answer 11

Are you trying to be funny? School is a setting where all different types of subjects are taught. If kids are learning about arts, health, culture, and social studies, why not religion? It is a major part of the human experience. There would be no reason to teach math at Church because church doesn't claim to be a place where all subjects are taught--just religion.