[ExI] extropy-chat Digest, Vol 179, Issue 2

[Ben Zaiboc]

On 04/08/2018 17:38, extropy-chat-request at lists.extropy.org wrote:
> We sadly need religion taught in schools, despite the biases and evils 
> that can occur.

It has been amazing to me the number of people who ask how atheists can 
have any kind of morality outside of religion, and even assuming that we 
don't!
We sadly need religion taught in schools, despite the biases and evils 
that can occur.


We badly need education /about/ religion, that I'd agree wholeheartedly.

Sadly, 'religious education' seems to always consist in religious 
indoctrination, and is biased towards the particular religion that holds 
sway where the students happen to live.  Even when the RE includes other 
religions, it still takes a superstitious, supernatural worldview as the 
norm, and doesn't actually investigate what religions actually are, how 
they arise, and why.

I think the best counter to the morality question is to direct them back 
to their own holy books, and ask why, for instance, they don't own 
slaves, beat their wives, work on Sunday, avoid wearing mixed fabrics 
etc., etc. (best not ask these kind of questions of islamic 
fundamentalists, though!).

-- 
Ben Zaiboc

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