I do not have the the protective garb of religion to shield me from disapproval for my views. But something in this interesting article I could not but help notice. So religion finds menstruating women unclean. Which is when the lining of the womb where an egg is born is regularly shed. Does religion not view the male sperm unclean too when that is shed, many times more?
I could be wrong but the male of the species has mostly worked in the engine room of religious dogma - the status of women in such a setting always seems of lower value.
if only! as an atheistic nullifidian, i ignore all religiosity of any persuasion and the 'ignis fatuus' buffoonery of their proclamations, promulgations, prattle, and other feckless pronouncements. it is a challenge to be even polite or diplomatic. if a student of mine solicited such exam-exceptionalism, i would simply declare, "fine. that will be an F then!"
I was a biology teacher in Aberdeen city(employed by Aberdeen city council) in 2015.As you might expect, at some point I was teaching about evolution. In what I thought would be an entertaining digression for the 15yo's, I recounted my experience of visiting the 'so called' creationist museum in Kentucky in 2011 when it had achieved a certain notoriety which I thought I should investigate.To cut a long story short, I lampooned the experience, from arriving in the car park with the attendants sporting a pair of cowboy style handguns(was the penalty for parking indiscipline was to be shot at-"hoi you! not that parking space.Crack!/whistle as bullet passes overhead). Of course, I exaggerate. Going on to the displays the centrepiece was a nativity scene with an animatronic dinosaur bending its long neck down to pay homage to the infant Jesus. Moving on, I reached the merchandising area. Shockingly I discovered there was a large number of books, some promoting the Darwin theory of evolution and others the creationist perspective.
I was perplexed because one assumes that the motive was to evangelise creationism, not provide a balanced selection of the opposed 'ideologies'. The next display was a 'petting zoo' where highly genetically selected animals were available to stroke.Again I was perplexed because I was not sure of the point. All the animals were the product of selective breeding.I remember a very cute, Eeyore like miniature donkey about the size of a border collie.
Eventually the penny dropped that the 'museum' owners made no distinction, either because they didn't understand, or more likely the only interest was the dollars taken at the till. The absurdity of their woolly headed religiosity was irrelevant.the only consideration was money.
In class, I think I managed to raise a few laughs. At the end of the lesson one of the pupils asked for a quiet word: He told me that "charlotte and jeanie' two female pupils attended one of the US based evangelical churches and warned me that my lesson would probably trigger a complaint.In fact he was correct, and I found myself in the office of the deputy head, a women in her sixties, near to retirement, with a strong connection to Roman catholicism.
The parents had both written to register their complaints . The deputy head then pointed to an item on the school 'Mission statement',( a wall poster) which in effect said that teachers must respect the beliefs of the pupils. I had clearly not 'respected' the religious teachings of the unspecified religious cult. I was then warned that I would be monitored by the principal teacher and I then had to write a statement for the school management as part of the disciplinary process.
I was appalled by the situation. My opinion of the head teacher and the deputy head and the city council that had appointed such people could not have been expressed politely. It was a blatant rejection of the enlightenment values which I had assumed were the dominant values of the education department. The deputy head retired, the head teacher was appointed director of education in Fife. I retired in 2016 but the memory of the absurdity lives on.
In my view religions have mostly survived and spread due to the indoctrination of children in the home. If religions were capable of spreading peace love and harmony that wouldn’t be so terrible. Unfortunately in today’s world it seems more like some form of child abuse.
Hopefully the people of those groups (I had to look up POC) would have the expertise that Richard expects when tricky subjects are discussed as opposed to simply holding dogmatic/unrelated views.
I do not have the the protective garb of religion to shield me from disapproval for my views. But something in this interesting article I could not but help notice. So religion finds menstruating women unclean. Which is when the lining of the womb where an egg is born is regularly shed. Does religion not view the male sperm unclean too when that is shed, many times more?
I could be wrong but the male of the species has mostly worked in the engine room of religious dogma - the status of women in such a setting always seems of lower value.
Yes, it is. I only know Judaism, though.
if only! as an atheistic nullifidian, i ignore all religiosity of any persuasion and the 'ignis fatuus' buffoonery of their proclamations, promulgations, prattle, and other feckless pronouncements. it is a challenge to be even polite or diplomatic. if a student of mine solicited such exam-exceptionalism, i would simply declare, "fine. that will be an F then!"
I was a biology teacher in Aberdeen city(employed by Aberdeen city council) in 2015.As you might expect, at some point I was teaching about evolution. In what I thought would be an entertaining digression for the 15yo's, I recounted my experience of visiting the 'so called' creationist museum in Kentucky in 2011 when it had achieved a certain notoriety which I thought I should investigate.To cut a long story short, I lampooned the experience, from arriving in the car park with the attendants sporting a pair of cowboy style handguns(was the penalty for parking indiscipline was to be shot at-"hoi you! not that parking space.Crack!/whistle as bullet passes overhead). Of course, I exaggerate. Going on to the displays the centrepiece was a nativity scene with an animatronic dinosaur bending its long neck down to pay homage to the infant Jesus. Moving on, I reached the merchandising area. Shockingly I discovered there was a large number of books, some promoting the Darwin theory of evolution and others the creationist perspective.
I was perplexed because one assumes that the motive was to evangelise creationism, not provide a balanced selection of the opposed 'ideologies'. The next display was a 'petting zoo' where highly genetically selected animals were available to stroke.Again I was perplexed because I was not sure of the point. All the animals were the product of selective breeding.I remember a very cute, Eeyore like miniature donkey about the size of a border collie.
Eventually the penny dropped that the 'museum' owners made no distinction, either because they didn't understand, or more likely the only interest was the dollars taken at the till. The absurdity of their woolly headed religiosity was irrelevant.the only consideration was money.
In class, I think I managed to raise a few laughs. At the end of the lesson one of the pupils asked for a quiet word: He told me that "charlotte and jeanie' two female pupils attended one of the US based evangelical churches and warned me that my lesson would probably trigger a complaint.In fact he was correct, and I found myself in the office of the deputy head, a women in her sixties, near to retirement, with a strong connection to Roman catholicism.
The parents had both written to register their complaints . The deputy head then pointed to an item on the school 'Mission statement',( a wall poster) which in effect said that teachers must respect the beliefs of the pupils. I had clearly not 'respected' the religious teachings of the unspecified religious cult. I was then warned that I would be monitored by the principal teacher and I then had to write a statement for the school management as part of the disciplinary process.
I was appalled by the situation. My opinion of the head teacher and the deputy head and the city council that had appointed such people could not have been expressed politely. It was a blatant rejection of the enlightenment values which I had assumed were the dominant values of the education department. The deputy head retired, the head teacher was appointed director of education in Fife. I retired in 2016 but the memory of the absurdity lives on.
In my view religions have mostly survived and spread due to the indoctrination of children in the home. If religions were capable of spreading peace love and harmony that wouldn’t be so terrible. Unfortunately in today’s world it seems more like some form of child abuse.
In the U.S. you can apply this article by replacing religious people with POC LGBTQ people.
Hopefully the people of those groups (I had to look up POC) would have the expertise that Richard expects when tricky subjects are discussed as opposed to simply holding dogmatic/unrelated views.
I wouldn't bank on it.
Not