History not to be taught in our schools

[adrianh]

I'm in the process of reading "The God Delusion" by Richard Dawkins. I have also watched his documentary "Root of all Evil".

I agree with what he says.

To quote Douglas Adams who says: "Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?"

You know tec0, I agree with you. Children are indoctinated from birth to believe in one story book. Yet they are also told that fairies don't exist and that the "Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster" is a sure path to damnation. Children are told to take the story book at face value (this isn't actually quite true - they are told to blindly accept the interpretation suitable to the circumstance that the parent / teacher is trying to portray). it is said that it is ok to stone a woman to death and that gays are going to go to the big KFC in the sky, yet in another place it says that you shouldn't kill. Anyway, the little kids of Muslim parents are taught a different story and so are the kids of each faction. By the time the kids are 16 they are unable to make up their own minds due to 16 years of brainwashing. Another stunning quote is this: "All kids are the same, they then grow up to be black and white".

What puzzles me is how people can blindly accept a set of stories collated by Emperor Constantine as the only truth, a truth that has no relationship with science, history or even basic physics. Yet those same people do not seem to believe in fairies, ufo's or unicorns. Seems that indoctrination at a young age ingraines so deeply that one becomes willing to do absolutely anything in the name of that belief.

I see the entire issue like this: The fact that a group of people agree that a certain belief system works for them does not give them the right to impose that system on others. I also think that the fact that a group of people hold certain beliefs does not make them true by virtue of number of believers. Remember - The world is flat and the earth is the centre of the universe.

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[tec0]

The truth is nothing really matters anyway. Yes there are a lot of people seeding a lot of hate for a lot of reasons. Still I have found in my own studies that there is a lot we cannot explain. What is truth and what is fiction can only be solved if divinity itself intervenes.

As I said before I don’t have all the answers. My best guess is do what you feel is right and be happy in your decision. If you find solace within your religion then who am I to discredit it. That being said people have the right to find and accept what works for them.

More importantly History and Religion must not be a weapon rather a lesson or a comfort.