The Case for Multifaith Education

Do you agree with the thesis ALL OF US need to be egaged in interfaith education?

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If your religion is as true and strong as you believe it to be, wouldn't showing all the others only make it stronger?

I don't believe parents should have the right to hide their kids from competing ideas. I hate when I see Menonites doing this. Children are not property. They are not owned by their parents.

There is no such thing as a "christian baby" or a "muslim baby", or a "liberal baby" or "conservative baby" for that matter. You are not any ideology until you've actually personally chosen it and people should have all available information in making an informed choice.
 
This has nothing to do with 'faith being strong/true' or not as most folks learn of other religions anyway on their own good time, the whole idea behind this absurdity is to form some ecumenical community with no edicts, rituals or identity where religion is attenuated and reduced to the shameless debacle that is atheism..

All babies are born Muslims on fitrah.. and there is only one eternal truth!

(17: 81) And say: "Truth has (now) arrived, and Falsehood perished: for Falsehood is (by its nature) bound to perish."
 
Pygoscelis said:
If your religion is as true and strong as you believe it to be, wouldn't showing all the others only make it stronger?

I don't believe parents should have the right to hide their kids from competing ideas. I hate when I see Menonites doing this. Children are not property. They are not owned by their parents.

There is no such thing as a "christian baby" or a "muslim baby", or a "liberal baby" or "conservative baby" for that matter. You are not any ideology until you've actually personally chosen it and people should have all available information in making an informed choice.
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So, Pygosceilis, if you have children, will you send them to Sunday school, Hebrew school, and whatever the name is for the classes that Muslims have for educating their children in the Islamic faith?
 
Gossamer skye said:
and this changes things how?
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Amadeus85 (click here) if you're not aware is a very right-wing fascist (he does not deny this term) leaning catholic who desires that a large chunk, if not all of europe fall under a quasi-medieval 'rule of christ'. He is against mult-culturalism, against homosexuality. He believes Secularism to be a massive conspiracy conduced by anti-catholics, or anti-theists, or in general atheists (I have no idea who he believes secularism specifically targets and by whom). He wishes to tell people what to do in their lives based on divine ordinance.

In short, he would like to have a state which tells people other than him what to do with their lives.

This is all highly amusing and ironic seeing as he listens to heavy metal, a sub-genre of music that many Christian right-wingers would see banned if they had their way.
 
Gossamer skye said:
This has nothing to do with 'faith being strong/true' or not as most folks learn of other religions anyway on their own good time, the whole idea behind this absurdity is to form some ecumenical community with no edicts, rituals or identity where religion is attenuated and reduced to the shameless debacle that is atheism..
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You believe that being decreed a specific mindset a birth is of more value that declaring your theological and metaphysical position yourself?

I rather think that empowering people and providing them with the means themselves to declare their own path in life puts a greater meaning on all terms, including even 'faith'.

I'm partially confused though: Do you disagree with places of education teaching their students different religious viewpoints as a means of purely that - education?

All babies are born Muslims on fitrah.. and there is only one eternal truth!
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Well, lots of people believe that (although attribute the 'eternal truth' as something else). It is however meaningless to everyone else.
 
Skavau said:
This is all highly amusing and ironic seeing as he listens to heavy metal, a sub-genre of music that many Christian right-wingers would see banned if they had their way.
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That was a few years ago, now I know what heavy metal really is.

The rest is quite correct, maybe except the whole liberal point of view. ^o)
 
Skavau said:
Amadeus85 (click here) if you're not aware is a very right-wing fascist (he does not deny this term) leaning catholic who desires that a large chunk, if not all of europe fall under a quasi-medieval 'rule of christ'. He is against mult-culturalism, against homosexuality. He believes Secularism to be a massive conspiracy conduced by anti-catholics, or anti-theists, or in general atheists (I have no idea who he believes secularism specifically targets and by whom). He wishes to tell people what to do in their lives based on divine ordinance.

In short, he would like to have a state which tells people other than him what to do with their lives.

This is all highly amusing and ironic seeing as he listens to heavy metal, a sub-genre of music that many Christian right-wingers would see banned if they had their way.
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I think it would serve the Muslim world greatly if Europe were to go back to the dark ages of church reign where women were soulless creatures and wearing pointy shoes meant you were promiscuous and where circumcised males had to keep their parts with them so that 'God could put them together after death' and eating potatoes meant you were having the devil's food for it grew from the earth so that millions of them end up dead in famines and not go beyond their boundaries so they wouldn't fall off the face of the earth..

Can't think of a single disadvantage :D

all the best
 
Grace Seeker said:
So, Pygosceilis, if you have children, will you send them to Sunday school, Hebrew school, and whatever the name is for the classes that Muslims have for educating their children in the Islamic faith?
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Too many places to send them. If they had one place where they could see all of it, yes, absolutely.
 
Skavau said:
Amadeus85 (click here) if you're not aware is a very right-wing fascist (he does not deny this term) leaning catholic who desires that a large chunk, if not all of europe fall under a quasi-medieval 'rule of christ'. He is against mult-culturalism, against homosexuality. He believes Secularism to be a massive conspiracy conduced by anti-catholics, or anti-theists, or in general atheists (I have no idea who he believes secularism specifically targets and by whom). He wishes to tell people what to do in their lives based on divine ordinance.

In short, he would like to have a state which tells people other than him what to do with their lives.
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Never have truer words been spoken!
Add 'anti Protestant' and 'anti communist' to the list too.
 
Gossamer skye said:
I think it would serve the Muslim world greatly if Europe were to go back to the dark ages of church reign where women were soulless creatures and wearing pointy shoes meant you were promiscuous and where circumcised males had to keep their parts with them so that 'God could put them together after death' and eating potatoes meant you were having the devil's food for it grew from the earth so that millions of them end up dead in famines and not go beyond their boundaries so they wouldn't fall off the face of the earth..

Can't think of a single disadvantage :D

all the best
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Besides the blatant sarcasm, how would that really serve the Muslim world better?
 
Gossamer skye said:
Rather the enemies of God.. 'Mulitfaith' can only be targeting of Muslims.. I can't imagine Christianity being any more liberal!

all the best
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Any religion, be it Islam or Christianity, are only as liberal or conservative based on how they are interpreted and implemented into society. Islam can be just as liberal as Christianity if interpreted in such a way.
 

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