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What was your religious education in public schools by State?

MikeDwight

Well-Known Member
I've come on an alarming realization, possibly condemnable upon my person. Everyone could help me out with a simple questionnaire. Please indicate which of the listed items, and fill in as miscellaneous where applicable, that you remember highlighted terms in your public education, and list the state in which that Grade School , Elementary-High School religious education took place. I'll provide my example at the bottom.
Thanks for participating.

1. 95 theses
2. Oliver Cromwell
3. Calvinism
4. King Henry VIII
5. Anne Boleyne
6. (loosely the Pope/Catholocism)
7. Byzantine Empire
8. Stonewall Jackson
9. Martin Luther
10. Queen Catherine (of Aragorn)
11. Queen Isabella
12. Lutheranism (More Specifically)
13. Quakers
14. Puritans/Colony of New England/Thanksgiving


I respond,
1,4,5,8,9,14
I may write in, education with Martin Luther King Jr.. you can count that as 15.
10, 13 may have been there
Northern Alabama




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I Highly Suspect state textbooks are dividing the country. I'm entirely for my state, BUT, not at the expense of assuming unAmerican education! Thanks for responses. Or, if you want to comment, that's fine.
 

paarsurrey

Veteran Member
I've come on an alarming realization, possibly condemnable upon my person. Everyone could help me out with a simple questionnaire. Please indicate which of the listed items, and fill in as miscellaneous where applicable, that you remember highlighted terms in your public education, and list the state in which that Grade School , Elementary-High School religious education took place. I'll provide my example at the bottom.
Thanks for participating.

1. 95 theses
2. Oliver Cromwell
3. Calvinism
4. King Henry VIII
5. Anne Boleyne
6. (loosely the Pope/Catholocism)
7. Byzantine Empire
8. Stonewall Jackson
9. Martin Luther
10. Queen Catherine (of Aragorn)
11. Queen Isabella
12. Lutheranism (More Specifically)
13. Quakers
14. Puritans/Colony of New England/Thanksgiving


I respond,
1,4,5,8,9,14
I may write in, education with Martin Luther King Jr.. you can count that as 15.
10, 13 may have been there
Northern Alabama




-----
I Highly Suspect state textbooks are dividing the country. I'm entirely for my state, BUT, not at the expense of assuming unAmerican education! Thanks for responses. Or, if you want to comment, that's fine.

Religious education and also of the Atheism people should be:
  • imparted to the students on equitable basis
  • at all levels of schools and colleges
  • so that the students are properly equipped within their student life
  • to adopt whatever they think is right and gives them satisfaction
  • before they enter their practical life.
  • Science is a common tool for the believers and non-believers, this is not to Demean science but that is different from the off-the-cuff thoughts of the pseudo-scientists.
I don't live in America and therefore cannot comment on its education systems. My comments are general and for the Globe at large. Why restrict it to America?
Right?

Regards
 
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MikeDwight

Well-Known Member
Religious education and as well as of the Atheism people should be:
  • imparted to the students on equitable basis
  • at all levels of schools and colleges
  • so that the students are properly equipped within their student life
  • to adopt whatever they think is right and gives them satisfaction
  • before they enter their practical life.
Right?

Regards
Again please, if you notice, I wanted a real specific questionnaire format. So, if you want to Edit your post for that, I'd actually prefer that. What were items you were tested to Know to be a Performing student in school? Past tense. Surely you got an Education somewhere and you can be honest about it.

I'd caution students against being equipped with historical religion, these carcasses left over in America are all flipped and cut open for the bone marrow.
Professors don't have the Knowledge! I'd pity them, most people should. They don't have professorial Training to assume to be protecting the First Amendment which is free association, free practice, free assembly, free speech, on religion, I associate Christian with docile stupidity that isn't cutting edge and I'm writing you to exclude you from admission. Wait a minute, discrimination in effect, we solved it at the same time we said don't hire the blacks who clean good.
 

rocala

Well-Known Member
I think that if you wish to limit your research to those educated in the U.S.A. you should state this clearly at the beginning. Otherwise stop being so rude to the overwhelming majority of the human race.
 

MikeDwight

Well-Known Member
OK The Majority of the Human Race that is speaking English. Where'd you go to a government run institution, what was that government, and what does government find sufficient social public religious education? This is closely related to my studies on US President Eisenhower as well and his religion for the Civil religion.

Why does no one do the questionnaire? It'd be like

write-in buddhism

Eastern Bengal
 

MikeDwight

Well-Known Member
Thanks for the mild attempt at being on topic. I appreciate it . I had high hopes for some sort of Results. That's like trying to predict People! Obviously. So the Religious School lacked subject matter in terms of Religion? That's pretty ironic.
 

Rival

Si m'ait Dieus
Staff member
Premium Member
My school wasn't officially affiliated with any religion but we prayed in assembly and said grace before meals, and upon leaving school were given a Bible (which I still own).
 

MikeDwight

Well-Known Member
That sort of thing seemed to happen quietly in America, I don't know if you're in America, in the spirit of internationalism and globalism and anti-nationalism. There are no famous debates of course, that Eisenhower added every student to stand at attention, and salute, and say that in our belief, God, sees us pledge of allegiance to a flag, of the united states of America, to the republic and to the flag, for which it stands, one nation, Under God, indivisible with Liberty and Justice for All. Look around ,everybody around here went through an Initiation, no one converses, talks or argues, do I need to make Nazi comparisons or its just there? It is there. The new motto "In God We Trust" at the exact same time 1955ish, Eisenhower, how many know that? Its Strong Civil Religion, its not even a very international or ecumenical religion.

I don't know Rocala! I am however very humble about it! If we try again, the OP is asking you to write numbers 1-15 items that people in Government run Public Schools or Universities Require you to Know or have been marked off or lowered as a bad Student in the Public Education system, where science and religion meet. This is in no way trying to discriminate everyone's international educations. I suspect Oliver Cromwell and the Kings play a bigger part in the history of religion, for England for instance.
 

Spirit of Light

Be who ever you want
I've come on an alarming realization, possibly condemnable upon my person. Everyone could help me out with a simple questionnaire. Please indicate which of the listed items, and fill in as miscellaneous where applicable, that you remember highlighted terms in your public education, and list the state in which that Grade School , Elementary-High School religious education took place. I'll provide my example at the bottom.
Thanks for participating.

1. 95 theses
2. Oliver Cromwell
3. Calvinism
4. King Henry VIII
5. Anne Boleyne
6. (loosely the Pope/Catholocism)
7. Byzantine Empire
8. Stonewall Jackson
9. Martin Luther
10. Queen Catherine (of Aragorn)
11. Queen Isabella
12. Lutheranism (More Specifically)
13. Quakers
14. Puritans/Colony of New England/Thanksgiving


I respond,
1,4,5,8,9,14
I may write in, education with Martin Luther King Jr.. you can count that as 15.
10, 13 may have been there
Northern Alabama




-----
I Highly Suspect state textbooks are dividing the country. I'm entirely for my state, BUT, not at the expense of assuming unAmerican education! Thanks for responses. Or, if you want to comment, that's fine.
None of the above was in the religious teachings when I was in school.
Only general knowledge about Christianity, Buddhism, Hindusim, Jewish and Islam.
All my knowledge I have about religion was acquired after I stopped study
 

paarsurrey

Veteran Member
Again please, if you notice, I wanted a real specific questionnaire format. So, if you want to Edit your post for that, I'd actually prefer that. What were items you were tested to Know to be a Performing student in school? Past tense. Surely you got an Education somewhere and you can be honest about it.

I'd caution students against being equipped with historical religion, these carcasses left over in America are all flipped and cut open for the bone marrow.
Professors don't have the Knowledge! I'd pity them, most people should. They don't have professorial Training to assume to be protecting the First Amendment which is free association, free practice, free assembly, free speech, on religion, I associate Christian with docile stupidity that isn't cutting edge and I'm writing you to exclude you from admission. Wait a minute, discrimination in effect, we solved it at the same time we said don't hire the blacks who clean good.
I have amended my post #2 as told by one. Please see it. Right?
However, I intend to do it in a separate post.

Regards
 

LuisDantas

Aura of atheification
Premium Member
Religious education and also of the Atheism people should be:

Hi, Paarsurrey.

Something that just came to me. You sometimes talk of the atheism people or atheist people.

"People", in English, is not quite the same as "persons". Persons is just the plural of "person". "People" means roughly the same thing, but there is often an understanding that there is something uniting the persons that make up a people, usually some form of ethnic characteristic or cultural trait.

By that perspective, there is no atheistic people. We atheist literally have nothing in common other than being atheists - and it would be most unusual to find any atheists who think of us as a "people" for that reason. Even other atheists would think of that as, at the very least, weird.

That clarified, let's see what you propose...

  • imparted to the students on equitable basis
  • at all levels of schools and colleges
  • so that the students are properly equipped within their student life

Fair enough, and agreed.

  • to adopt whatever they think is right and gives them satisfaction
Within reasonable parameters, sure. There are certain duties that arise from the social contract. For instance, literacy is not really optional on this day and age. And a measure of civic awareness is also IMO an indispensable part of any curriculum.

  • before they enter their practical life.
  • Science is a common tool for the believers and non-believers, this is not to Demean science but that is different from the off-the-cuff thoughts of the pseudo-scientists.
Not sure of what you mean here. But it is certainly not demeaning to science to point out that it is, indeed, a tool for believers (theists, I assume) as much as for anyone else. Scientific knowledge and its benefits has not been kept apart from theists, nor should it.


I don't live in America and therefore cannot comment on its education systems. My comments are for the Globe at large.
Right?

Regards

All the best.
 

MikeDwight

Well-Known Member
I have amended my post #2 as told by one. Please see it. Right?
However, I intend to do it in a separate post.

Regards
When Napoleon tried for the new World we are so comfortable with today, saying he was the True Muslim, or when the French tried to give cannonry to the Ottomans. Why did the Ottomans reject French Cannons? The Imams said, well its heathen/heretic technology. I'm just pointing out something we think its easy to miss because racism tended to be the spread of technology, or technology sharers, or the odd case of islands feeling like they're other islands, and the japanese-English alliance, and the Brits handed over aircraft carriers and pilot instructors even.

This is the most important topic on religious forums. Especially when science was a tool Under religion.

Hey Guys! That's 4 posts on that one guy's rant about being an atheist. When Religion enters science and its still all rants.
 
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MikeDwight

Well-Known Member
None of the above was in the religious teachings when I was in school.
Only general knowledge about Christianity, Buddhism, Hindusim, Jewish and Islam.
All my knowledge I have about religion was acquired after I stopped study
That's not how my school worked. Basically, the entire Gradeschool experience was read the entire chapter ahead of time. We'd review that chapter in class. They'd have highlighted words the ensured comprehension.

What was the experience that highlighted words to ensure comprehension?
1.___

What are you saying they actuall Taught you in School. I'm not counting this post as an answer really.
 

Spirit of Light

Be who ever you want
That's not how my school worked. Basically, the entire Gradeschool experience was read the entire chapter ahead of time. We'd review that chapter in class. They'd have highlighted words the ensured comprehension.

What was the experience that highlighted words to ensure comprehension?
1.___

What are you saying they actuall Taught you in School. I'm not counting this post as an answer really.
If you mean what did they teach in religious class? mostly a distorted view of what religion actually is, no school teacher in religious teaching cared about their teaching of religion
At the age of 15 years old I knew more about religion than my teacher, so I did not learn anything from them

I was in school from 1984 to 1997.
 

paarsurrey

Veteran Member
Again please, if you notice, I wanted a real specific questionnaire format. So, if you want to Edit your post for that, I'd actually prefer that. What were items you were tested to Know to be a Performing student in school? Past tense. Surely you got an Education somewhere and you can be honest about it.

I'd caution students against being equipped with historical religion, these carcasses left over in America are all flipped and cut open for the bone marrow.
Professors don't have the Knowledge! I'd pity them, most people should. They don't have professorial Training to assume to be protecting the First Amendment which is free association, free practice, free assembly, free speech, on religion, I associate Christian with docile stupidity that isn't cutting edge and I'm writing you to exclude you from admission. Wait a minute, discrimination in effect, we solved it at the same time we said don't hire the blacks who clean good.
Please elaborate the following points for me:
  • I'd caution students against being equipped with historical religion, these carcasses left over in America are all flipped and cut open for the bone marrow.
    • Quran/Islam/Muhammad is a living Religion, so it has no "carcasses" in America, so it is to be excepted. Those religions/no-religions that have carcasses in America they may take up their cases themselves.
  • Amendment which is free association, free practice, free assembly, free speech, on religion.
    • Is this freedom extended to every religion/no-religion.
  • I associate Christian with docile stupidity that isn't cutting edge.
    • This needs to be taken by 32000+ denominations in America and or anywhere else.
  • Professors don't have the Knowledge! I'd pity them.
    • I am Ahmadi peaceful Muslim and just an ordinary man in the street. I have never been a Professor of anything.
  • Wait a minute, discrimination in effect, we solved it at the same. time we said don't hire the blacks who clean good.
    • Please elaborate this point for me.
Regards
 

MikeDwight

Well-Known Member
Well, I have to push you again, because I'm interested in how different sections of the United States, or the World, establish textbooks for public education, and what those governments teach in religious education, so its the opposite from your personal experience on it.
 

MikeDwight

Well-Known Member
Please elaborate the following points for me:
  • I'd caution students against being equipped with historical religion, these carcasses left over in America are all flipped and cut open for the bone marrow.
    • Quran/Islam/Muhammad is a living Religion, so it has no "carcasses" in America, so it is to be excepted. Those religions/no-religions that have carcasses in America they may take up their cases themselves.
  • Amendment which is free association, free practice, free assembly, free speech, on religion.
    • Is this freedom extended to every religion/no-religion.
  • I associate Christian with docile stupidity that isn't cutting edge.
    • This needs to be taken by 32000+ denominations in America and or anywhere else.
  • Professors don't have the Knowledge! I'd pity them.
    • I am Ahmadi peaceful Muslim and just an ordinary man in the street. I have never been a Professor of anything.
  • Wait a minute, discrimination in effect, we solved it at the same. time we said don't hire the blacks who clean good.
    • Please elaborate this point for me.
Regards
Oh sure. well. We just made a show "Homeland" in the United States all about a guy who liked to get a mat and pray, because he got converted in the middle-east while in the military, did they explain any OK practice none. Just try it, time for a mat, time to pray. The headscarfs are great for some reason. Maybe the last thing before the French and Laicite. Jefferson Davis liked to shout down everybody with that Divine Protection and Providence of the God of the Fathers of the Nation some indisputable, Presbyterian/Puritan colonist/pre-oxford neo-Catholicism Anglican thing, Westminster confessioners, so, look for them to be 5 times undersized, sharing a manhattan watching sex in the city.

12 of the original colonies had a religion, if you wanted to be with Catholic Maryland, good for you.

That what America has, the free petri dish religions, that part seems pretty clear. I Naturally discovered mohammad, deist mohammad. I studied lightning hitting a kite and the name mohammad appeared in a petri dish.

Firefighters require a 60 pound lift exercise and not a single person is suggesting discriminating women. What's the difference, discrimination in effect. You're out to make a test Because that's against a group of people.
 

Spirit of Light

Be who ever you want
Well, I have to push you again, because I'm interested in how different sections of the United States, or the World, establish textbooks for public education, and what those governments teach in religious education, so its the opposite from your personal experience on it.
I can not answer you differently than I already did. Norway has a poor religious education. And if they still teach religion in public school today, i do not know
 
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