Scalia: 'Don't cram' religious neutrality 'down throats of American people'

[Peter_J]

nationalreview.com/corner/281522/pope-praises-agnostics-michael-potemra

 

[Peter_J]

Just a little tidbit that this conversation made me think of:

nationalreview.com/corner/281522/pope-praises-agnostics-michael-potemra

 

[TheAtheist]

Just a little tidbit that this conversation made me think of:

nationalreview.com/corner/281522/pope-praises-agnostics-michael-potemra

Well if your Pope Emeritus wants to define “agnostic” that way, than every scientist may as well be considered one .

I’ll say this - he’s correct on the idea that its the Pursuit of Truth that drives us forward…specifically how one validates what one considers to be true.

We should be neither in the business of accepting what we hope to be true,
nor running away from a truth that we may find rather…disturbing.

To do either would in fact produce a whole amount of suffering…

 

[JonNC]

=meltzerboy;13554938]How do you think teachers should talk about the Creator in public schools?

Personally, they should talk about the creator God in ways that are historically used in the United States. For example: “…that they are endowed by their creator with…”, “In God we trust.” etc.
And when asked about personal beliefs, teachers should be at liberty to speak about their faith, or not. Speaking about one’s faith does not have to be proselytizing.

A kind of generic Creator, or should they discuss a Trinitarian G-d according to Christianity,

Absolutely

a non-Trinitarian G-d according to Judaism and Islam,

Indeed

a panentheistic G-d together with minor deities according to Hinduism, the existence of several gods based on Paganism, or something else?

Yes.

What about children of families who do not believe in any G-d or gods: what should they be taught in public schools?

All should be taught about non-belief.

And how these contribute now, and contributed in the past, to the origins, growth, and development of these United States.

Finally, how well-trained, well-versed, and non-prejudicial are teachers to speak about the nature of G-d in any context?

As well-trained as we are in any subject. Given a good text, a smart teacher will seek out experts from various religions to talk to their students. Students at our school have already visited an Islamic center, because it is part of our curriculum. We use the*** Core Knowledge Sequence***, which requires children to actually know things about their nation and world - to have cultural literacy.

It is rarely better to not know something.

Jon