Author's Note: On Abby's blog there is a post titles "Anti-Discrimination Against Religion or Anti-Religious", and I was going to leave a comment on there, but the comment got to long so I am making it a response post. This piece was inspired by Abby, and I would suggest reading her post before reading this.
In Abby's post she talked about how school seems like it is turning anti-religious, instead of anti-discrimination. She talked about how different sites where blocked when she searched a certain religion on Google, and also about how we should learn about different religions. I almost completely agree, with her.
Starting with those sites being blocked, a lot of those sites where forums and school blocks them just because of that and not because of any religious reasons. I don't necessarily agree with them blocking off some forums, but that is not the point of this post.
When Abby said that we should learn more about other religions, I agreed with her. We learned a little about this stuff in sixth grade, but it was all historical and didn't say anything about customs. Besides it was so boring I almost dropped dead. School should teach us more about different religions, but I don't really think that will ever happen.
So on to the third and last point, about school discriminating against different religions, I don't necessarily believe that is true. I believe that school wants us to believe in one thing that they decide on. I feel that school encourages us not to have a religion, or to believe in evolution as they teach evolution as a fact (biology class in high school). It seems to me that school and society does not want religion, because it might "offend" someone, but why should it offend someone? It is after all my beliefs not theirs.
Starting with those sites being blocked, a lot of those sites where forums and school blocks them just because of that and not because of any religious reasons. I don't necessarily agree with them blocking off some forums, but that is not the point of this post.
When Abby said that we should learn more about other religions, I agreed with her. We learned a little about this stuff in sixth grade, but it was all historical and didn't say anything about customs. Besides it was so boring I almost dropped dead. School should teach us more about different religions, but I don't really think that will ever happen.
So on to the third and last point, about school discriminating against different religions, I don't necessarily believe that is true. I believe that school wants us to believe in one thing that they decide on. I feel that school encourages us not to have a religion, or to believe in evolution as they teach evolution as a fact (biology class in high school). It seems to me that school and society does not want religion, because it might "offend" someone, but why should it offend someone? It is after all my beliefs not theirs.
