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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 04/08/2018 17:38,
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:extropy-chat-request@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat-request@lists.extropy.org</a> wrote:<br>
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cite="mid:mailman.6.1533400722.6153.extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org"
type="cite"><span
style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:19.2px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">We
sadly need religion taught in schools, despite the biases and
evils that can occur.</span></blockquote>
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<span
style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:19.2px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">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! </span><br>
<span
style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:19.2px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"><span
style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:19.2px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">We
sadly need religion taught in schools, despite the biases and
evils that can occur.</span></span>
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ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><span
style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:19.2px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"><br>
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<big><span
style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:19.2px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"></span>We
badly need education <i>about</i> religion, that I'd agree
wholeheartedly.</big><br>
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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.</big><br>
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<big>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!).</big><br>
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Ben Zaiboc</pre>
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