Comments by "asynchronicity" (@asynchronicity) on "why religious education is important" video.

  1. Uh oh, please don't turn into Jordan Fucking Peterson. ✌️😸
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  2.  @rodpanhard  Definitely
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  3. 😂okay
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  4.  @seang2700  It helps to maintain a spoiled, parasitic monarchy.
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  5.  @seang2700  ✌️😸
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  6. And so many religious differences are based on wars. War and religion are eternal bedfellows.
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  7. The con of religion is that it frames itself as essential. It's more like mind cancer. (Cancer is a very natural phenomenon as well, by the way)
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  8. He didn't say indoctrination, now did he?
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  9.  @rodpanhard  "Religious education but in what religion?" What kind of strange question is this then? You don't seem to get the point of being educated in the religions of the world, being informed about their beliefs.
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  10.  @rodpanhard  Clearly you prioritize in terms of cultural relevance to contemporary concerns. Are you serious?
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  11.  @seang2700  Which culture? Wtf? It's hard to tell if people are playing dumb. (Although I really like your pre monotheism comment above so I am confused😸)
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  12.  @seang2700  What I wrote: "Clearly you prioritize in terms of cultural relevance to contemporary concerns." Education is always done from within a culture. Education is about creating "cultured" individuals. Studying religions that are practiced by members of one's own community is about becoming more aware of one's own culture, promoting cultural cohesion (ideally). Study of religions practiced by people of other cultures enhances everyone's ability to understand the framework of thinking that people in other cultures have. It should be obvious that we need to better understand powerful socioeconomic forces at play in the world that affect our own lives and our own culture. How to choose? Well, clearly Shia Islam is more relevant at the moment for a European than Nichiren Buddhism, for example.....
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  13.  @seang2700  Can you imagine trying to explain the Noah's Ark story unironically to a four year old? Utterly SADISTIC MADNESS AND ABSURDITY on multiple levels, yet it's a favorite Bible story for kids. Crazy. Religions can be taught about anthropologically at the appropriate age without being taught prescriptively, proscriptively or with doctrinal fearmongering.
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  14. Nothing weird here👆
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  15. You had a very special experience. Good for you. Don't bug others about it and everything will be fine.
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  16. 😂
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