Wednesday, January 15, 2014
First-grader told to stop talking about Bible
First-grader told to stop talking about Bible | Fox News: "The parents of a 6-year-old girl said their daughter was humiliated when a teacher interrupted the child’s one-minute speech and told her to sit down because she’s “not allowed to talk about the Bible in school”
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I'm a Christian myself, but I think we've created many of the problems we're facing now by our own incessant proselytizing, taking every possible opportunity to try to force our beliefs on others. The world is full of people who are not Christians, and who don't wish to have Christianity forced on themselves or their children, either overtly or covertly. I feel pretty sure most watchers of Fox News wouldn't want Muslim children reading the Koran to Christian children in school, and rightly so. They would see it as an attempt to influence and convert them, to spread their own religion. Since we cannot seem to agree not to try to convert others, this is the end result. Maybe it's just as well that we all practice our religions (and talk about them) at home and in church where such discussions are welcome.
ReplyDeleteWhile this may be true during most of the year, I think it is quite alarming that it occurred during a time when children were asked talk about their "Christmas" traditions. Sounds like she at least remembered Christ is the reason for the season.
DeleteI agree that there's something exceptional about this case, because she was specifically asked to talk about Christmas traditions, and then forbidden to do so. My guess would be that the school district, in an attempt to satisfy everyone and incur no lawsuits, tried to allow a discussion of traditions but didn't want said discussion to wander into decidedly religious territory. I suspect they hoped the children would talk about things like decorating the tree and shopping for presents, thus allowing them to acknowledge the holiday but provide no opportunity for evangelizing - a distinction a child could not be expected to make.
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