Why is the educational establishment in the USA afraid of Christianity.?
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THERE PROBABLY AGAINST CHRISTIANITY AND WE SHOULDN'T WORRY LET THEM DO THERE THING
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It is in the human's nature to fear what they don't understand. It is lack of exposure to differences and an ignorant attitude that create fear. Religions can foster this ignorance, yes.
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Just another scapegoat to blame society's problems on, and a way to divide people. There is a massive misconception in the US today that this is a "Christian" nation and that certain people/behaviors should be condemned. Funny thing, historically speaking every time a single religion comes to power that nations folds in on itself.
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I know I won't get the best answer, but I have to reply to this question. Before I begin; I just want to let you know that I too believe in God and Jesus Christ, but I also believe in the freedom of religion. God has given us free will; why can't we give the freedom of choice on religion.\n\nO.k. first of all, this country was not founded on Christianity, but more or less the freedom to choose which religion. See back in the time when this country was founded Christianity ruled the world and some of the people who didn't believe in it was shipped off to the Americas. US did not become a good place to be untill the discovery of gold.\n\nYes, in the past we were more religious then we are today, but it was not all Christian. Our national motto "In God we trust" was added to our original motto during the cold war, because Communists despised religion.\n\nNow with that being said I want to show you that it would piss more Christians off if they taught God in School.  See first of all you have to realize that even though we believe God to be 100% true, science does not. Science has found no proof on the exsistance of a God. With that being said the only way they could teach it in a school is say God is a theory. In other words they would say there is a belief in God, but it is not based on fact. This would piss me off if they taught it to my kids.\n\nNow as for throwing prayer and Christ out of schools, I totally agree with it. In a public school you can not be biased towards or against any religion, that would be prejudism. \n\nDon't complain that your school does not follow your beliefs. If schools went by everybodys beliefs there would be no time to teach.\n\nNow what I have to say to the people who think they need to have them in the schools is simply this: send your kids to a Christian school (they are better taught and have everything you are looking for in a school). That is what they are there for.
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Because America is screwed and it was screwed from the beginning. We always have biased oppinions and the media uses that to it's advantage. Since there are more Christians in America then any other religion, they impinge that into our values. Not to mention America was orignally formed from people who came here to practice their religion freely.
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I'm going to attribute it to being a land of immigrants.  With no other family around, they turned to the community of the church.  \n\nThen in the 1950s we had the Red Scare.  God was the opposite of communist somehow and there was a big push for religion.  \n\nThere is a bible belt in America, and it is scary.\n\nIf any of the idiots that are spouting off about America being founded by Christians should happen to read this far, this country was not founded by Christians.  The ten commandments has very little in common with the bill of rights.  You might be brain washed, check into it.
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My friends in Europe find it outrageous that America would even consider banning evolution from the classroom or teaching creationism along side it.  As far as I know, very few Europeans believe in creationism and reject evolution.  And I'm fairly sure the phenonomon of asking it be taught as science is uniquely American, and is aptly called a psychosis.\n\nshiba: I didn't say anything about the government banning the teaching of evolution (although many states have made frightening leaps in that direction).  However, many creationists do advocate it (spend a few minutes looking around this site if you don't believe me), and the government is taking them seriously enough to pass laws mandating that students be told things like "evolution is a theory, not a fact," and "there are many gaps in the theory of evolution."\n\nWhen you ask that creationism be taught along side evolution you're not asking for equal rights you're asking that Christianity be given more voice than other religions.  Creationism is based in religion.  Evolution is a part of science.  Science is not a religion.  Religion is not taught in public schools.  Teaching creationism in schools infringes on my right not to be Christian (unless, of course, you're prepared to mandate the teaching of Muslim, Buddist, Hindu, Wiccan, and Satanist ideology as well).  Every relgion has its own creation story.  To teach only the Christian one is not giving Chrisitanity equality, it's giving it exclusive favoritism.\n\nThere is no reason under the sun why the Christian story of creation should be taught in a science classroom.  But if it were, you would have to teach EVERY story of creation.  There is no more evidence to support the Christian creation story than there is to support the theory that the universe was created by the Flying Spaghetti Monster.  And don't bother to quote the bible at me, that does not constitute scientific evidence.\n\nYou actually don't have the right to force every child in the country to listen to your religion in science class.  Sorry, but that's not a reasonable request.  You're not fighting for equality, you're fighting for government-sanctioned superiority.
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Mainly because most of the philosphies behind the different classes are very "non-christian," and this is a concern to some of the different christian sects. They don't want their children exposed to Druids, Witches and the like. Their fear also comes from the fact that D&D actually has its own religion made for the characters, a pantheon similar to Norse or Greek mythology, with gods and demigods and prophets. Some of the "add-on" books also delve into the satanic side of culture, by exploring the 9 hells, beasts fo the Undead, or other aspects of the game that Christians feel are against their Bible. I do feel that they need to realize D&D is just a game, just like Monopoly, Super Mario, and Duke Nukem. Sure it allows you to invent and create a character, from head to toe, and invent their life and their story, whether it be a tale of heroism in battle or a story of great evil. D&D is like reading a book, except you'rer allowed to play as one of the characters, not just read about them. And yes, I do play D&D.
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Christianity is a powerful religion because it has so many members.  It is hard to speak out against Christianity not just here, but in all areas of life.\n\nMany Christians believe that this is a Christian country, not a country with religious freedom.  I hope that one day we will be able to have true religious freedom, but until that day we must accept that Christianity rules America.  But acceptance does not mean that we can not work for change!
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That's the flaw in their argument. Nine times out of ten, they only want Christian prayer and Christian material in schools. It's the same people who support the Ten Commandments being placed in a government building, but would flip over backwards with anger if someone put the Four Noble Truths of Buddhism or the Five Pillars of Islam in there as well.
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Cuz christians are scared of people like us... ;-)
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Yes, I am scared of them, and angry at the same time.  I can understand, academically speaking, that they believe that their religion is the best, but this country has survived for hundreds of years with religious freedom as a guarantee of citizenship.  I read things that Fundamentalists have written or articles about things that they've said, and I get really worried.  I mean, what if my next-door neighbor is a Fundie and I don't know it and say something about being a Wiccan?  Will I find dead cats in my yard, as I have heard of happening to someone else?  Will my windows be broken with rocks, my family threatened, all because of my religion?  I thought that we were past that, but apparently we're not.\n\nFundies seem to think that if the world would all change to be like them, everything would be grand.  They just don't get that not everyone wants to be like them.  Not everyone wants prayer and bible classes in school; that's why we don't send our kids to private Christian schools, after all.  Not everyone wants to walk into a public building and see the Ten Commandments on a pedestal when there's no representation of their religion there to balance it out.\n\nI'm always worried that something will happen, maybe a seemingly-unimportant piece of legislation will get through, and all of a sudden the U.S. will be a Christian theocracy.  If that were ever to happen, I would pack up and get out of Dodge despite the fact that I'm in the military.  I'd try for concientious objector first, but if they suddenly made some rule about that, the U.S. becoming a religious state would definitely be enough to make me desert.  Sorry if that sounds awful, but it's true.  I would refuse to serve a theocracy of any sort, even my own religion!  Freedom of religion all the way!
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Separation of church and state (government) Religion is not banned, I learned about muslims, jewish, greek mythology, ancient egyptian religions. The thing about teaching Christianity is that there are so many fine differences that people currently practice, parents do not want their children to be taught that 'thou shalt not make unto thy self any graven image which is in heaven or on earth to worship" This especially pi$$es of catholics. Thus we have no christianity in schools.
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I couldn't agree with you more. What irritates me the most is the lack of wanting to learn. They figure if they should know it, it would be in the bible. At this point, religion is basically standing in the way of progress.
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Nothing.  In America there is seperation of church and state as long as it is presumed that christianity will always be included.
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Religious people are a danger to all of us, i.e. the 9-11 attackers.  Religious people try to prevent schools from teaching science, namely evolution.  Religious people aren't really thinking, they're just reciting what they've been indoctrinated, and it's quite irritating to listen to.
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You are comparing a theocratic state and secular states. In United States, push from Christian groups are there to teach Christianity in schools. However, US laws strictly separates the church and the state. Any fedaral funded school or institution cannot teach religion - they can teach it from a cultural aspect but not the religious texts directly. The biggest thing is that the west has gone through dark ages and renaissance where people started empowering themselves. It has not happened in any third world country. Reforms and chages are put on people who are not reformed. That is why culture, religion and state are in a mess.