Should Religious leaders be involved in any form of public school employment

[AxisMundi]

Whatever.

[AxisMundi]

Originally Posted by Apollonius

It's quite simple really .. that religious studies and the resultant academia arising from such scholarly investigation predates and thus contributed to the emergence of secular scholarship.

Eh, no.

You are ignoring a huge portion of human history, from the Greeks to the Persians.

You are also not considering at all the Catholic Church's stance on education in the past as well.

Ever wonder why a PhD is called a PhD?

Early Universities had to call everything but math, theology, and medicine "philosophies" or they would be closed down and educators arrested for heresy.

According to the Church, only those three things, medicine, theology, and math, could be called sciences.

The RCC has been more of a hinderance than a help to education.

[Apollonius]

Originally Posted by AxisMundi

The RCC has been more of a hinderance than a help to education.

This closing statement of yours is all one needs to consider when evaluating the full contents of your response.

[AxisMundi]

Originally Posted by Apollonius

This closing statement of yours is all one needs to consider when evaluating the full contents of your response.

In other words you cherrypicked something you don't like as a basis for an ad hominem fallacy.

Gotcha.

What you offered is mere lip service, akin to saying the US was "founded on Christian principles", something totally unsupported but sounds good to some people.

What I offered is based on simple, easily researched history.

[9-10ths_Penguin]

Originally Posted by AxisMundi

Firstly, I think it is a conflict of interest for religious professionals to be paid instructors in a secular government operated institution.

You can whine and cry about bigotry all you wish, doesn't change my opinion.

What do we have to do to get you to explain why you think there's a conflict of interest and what the nature of this conflict would be?

Originally Posted by AxisMundi

Eh, no.

You are ignoring a huge portion of human history, from the Greeks to the Persians.

You are also not considering at all the Catholic Church's stance on education in the past as well.

Ever wonder why a PhD is called a PhD?

Early Universities had to call everything but math, theology, and medicine "philosophies" or they would be closed down and educators arrested for heresy.

According to the Church, only those three things, medicine, theology, and math, could be called sciences.

Where on Earth did you hear that?

It's called a Ph.D. because the phrase "philosophy" used to be used quite broadly. It wasn't much more than a century ago that the term "scientist" came into fashion; before that, the discipline we call "science" was referred to as "natural philosophy". There was no church conspiracy involved.

[kai]

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