• Mr_Blott
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    1 day ago

    This just… isn’t true

    When I was a kid we had a class called R.E.

    Religious Education

    The whole point of it was to inform and educate kids like us about the multitude of religious and non-religious beliefs in the world, and to allow us to form our own opinions, while also understanding different perspectives on the subject

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      1 day ago

      Because learning about a religion is not the same as followimg or being made to adhere to it concepts.

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        You just described the whole philosophy of the educational course we were taught

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          7 hours ago

          Yeah I did. I don’t know what I thought I read when I replied to your comment but somehow I interpreted it entirely opposite to what you actually wrote. I’m going to just go with an all encompassing ‘I was a bit tired’ and offer my apologies as we we’re basically in agreement.

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        Worked fine in the class I took at community college. We read parts of the Qu’ran, Torah, and New Testament, and I think parts of the Bagavad Ghita and some Buddhist texts. The course was fantastic, and I recommend everyone take something similar.