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[–] Tedesche@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

I don’t necessarily have a problem with this, so long as the lessons aren’t dictated to be from a religious perspective. I think the Bible and the Quran make sense as required reading as historical works. They’re tremendously important cultural and historical documents. As long as they’re taught from that perspective, I don’t have a problem with them being required reading texts.

The problem starts when they’re being required as texts to legitimize the religions they’re associated with. Then, you’ve got the state supporting some religions over others or no religion at all.

[–] IronBird@lemmy.world 3 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

actually examining all the contradictions in this stuff is a great way to build critical thinking skills. but actually reading the bible is something most of the fundy types really have a hard time with, their religions as a whole have been built around unquestioning top-down pushed faith for so long that (ime) they almost seemed scared to actually think for themselves

This is the shit hole south.

Of COURSE they're going through turn it into a fucking 5 day Sunday school session. Ripe for indoctrination and they cannot even leave