Hi camp! Welcome to JSH

Hi....welcome to JSH!

Hello anyone, lol. Been outside again, while the suns been out.
Cleaning up dog poo

Ahhh, but you forget I am but a Canuck scouser, lol. It's too damn cold
to go anywhere until June/July!

What's basil do Nene?

It sure is and I think it's great they want to expose students to all
religious viewpoints. What better way to have young adults being capable
of making their own decisions when it comes to religion and forming
their own educated opinions, views and beliefs and not having anything
shoved down their throat by parents, the media or the govenment.

While we cannot erase the past, we cannot live in the past. Nor can we
make people here and now pay for mistakes of those in the past. The
world needs to move forward, not remain in the past. It does no one any
good to do that. I do what I do on my own free will and own accord and
not always in response to the actions of another. If I jumped up and
down everytime someone was in the spotlight doing or saying something I
did not agree with, I would not have a career or a roof over my head.
While there is so much wrong in today's world, I do what I can, when I
can, when I am able and to me, every little bit can make a world of
difference.

Arrrrgggggh! When I hit the post reply button I get bumped
off and have to relog in, LMAO...... bumpy sunday.

Hey Mike and Van....am getting bumped off when I try to post
sometimes..... have to keep relogging back in and then post. When I hit
the "post reply" button, lol. Thought you would want to know, maybe
it's one of the bugs going on you had this morning.....

I have said it several times in here, that the educational systems need
to improve, keep up with the changing times, the diversity of our world
and it looks like Canada is taking it on. I think it's a wonderful
concept, to teach about all religions, faiths and believes, past and
present.

Thank god for air bags, lol!

Glad to see you and to hear you're getting better Lisa

Not sure hun.....just got here a few minutes ago myself. But, each time
I post, I get booted off the site, lol. Am afraid to press the "post
reply" button, ack! If you see me now then don't, that's why.

Hmmmmmmm, is a good question. But, having been single so long, I don't
miss anything about an ex.

Good luck with the move froggy......see you soon hun!

Booyah!

How are you shen? Was worried we'd not get on at all today,
lol.....

Taken from The Winnipeg Free Press, April 22, 2007:

Should university students be required to study religion?

A curriculum committee at Harvard University thought so. Last fall it
made waves across North America when it recommended that every student
at that university be required to take one course in the subject in
order to graduate.

In making the recommendation, the committee stated that it is important
for graduates to know "the role of religion in contemporary, historical,
or furture events - personal, cultural, national or international". The
committee went on to say that students often struggle to make sense of
the relationship between their own religious beliefs and teh secular and
intellectual world they encounter at the university. It also noted that
wars are sometimes fought in the name of religion, and that the topic is
central to some of the most contentious contemporary debates such as
evolution, stem-cell research and same-sex marriage.

The proposal made a lot of sense - after all, there's hardly a subject
that doesn't have a religious dimension. But, not everyone agreed.
Faced with sharp criticism from some faculty members, the committee
decided to drop the recommendation. In its place, it is substituting a
course on "what it means to be a human being". Since what it means to
be a human being includes making decisions about religion - choosing
whether or not to believe in God - this may not be an entirely bad
thing. But it's still too bad that Harvard didn't adopt the new course;
the university is seen as a leader in higher education in North America,
and what it does is often copied by other schools.

What about public elementary and high schools - should they consider
teaching religion, too? Lois Sweet thinks they should. In her book,
"God in The Classroom: The Controversial Issue Of Religion In Canada's
Schools", the Carleton University journalism professor promotes the idea
of "religious literacy", which she describes as "not just a knowledge of
one's own beliefs, but a capacity to encounter and analyze respectfully
the religious views of others, and to see that enterprise as personally
worthwhile.

Such courses of instruction, she adds, would not promote one religion
over another, but support a range of religious perspectives that teach
respect for religious thought and religious diversity. Why isn't
religion taught in more public schools? For Sweet, the issue boils down
to a new kind of intolerance - toward religion. "We've gone from times
when the religious were often intolerant of the non-religious, or those
with a different religion, to today when it is those who hold religious
convictions who are subjected to societal intolerance", she says. "This
intolerance also takes the form of ignoring, even prohibiting religion
in our schools".

One Canadian school board has decided to buck the trend; last year the
Calgary Board of Education instituted a study of the world's religions
for students from kindergarten through Grade 9. "The study about
religion is important in developing well-rounded students", the board
states, adding that "education about religion can help to reduce
barriers between groups and develop an understanding of and respect for
the belief's of others". In creating the course of study, the board
made it clear that it is sponsoring the study of religion - not the
practice of religion and that schools may expose students to all
religious views, but may not impose any particular view.

Dr. Jack Miller studies the role of spirituality in education at the
Ontario Institute For Studies in Education. "My concern as a citizen is
taht in public schools, as they are set up now, people with religious
viewpoints can't bring them into discussion", he told the Hamilton
Spectator last May. "The human spirit or soul of whatever you want to
call it, is part of all of us. If we ignore that, we're diminishing an
important part of the human being".

But maybe the last word should to to Annie Kidder of the Ontario parent
lobby group called People For Education, an organization that supports
public education in that province. She wonders if reintroducing
religion to the classroom might be a good thing, considering how many
children are growing up today without religion or even a defined set of
religiously based values to guide their behaviour. "I grew up in the
50's and 60's", she told teh Spectator,. "I'm part of a generation that
was loath to simply pass along a ready-made set of values to my kids.
Now I look at my kids and think, Hmmmm....they could have learned more
about that - and maybe about religion too".

Happy late B'Day Luis.......

You're not getting older, just sexier

Thanks for getting us up and running Mike and Van, you guys
rock!!!!

No way Allen...ain't gonna happen, but nice try, lol

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