Physophical Question of the Day:
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Physophical question of theweek day:
A while back, one the kids I watch was doing their spelling homework, making sentances with their spelling words. The sentance the kid came up with (and he was rather proud of this) was:
"We burned the church down to the ground."
I was kind of horrified by this, and steered the sentance to something else, also using the spelling words. But he couldn't understand why I was disturbed by this sentance and I couldn't figure why he wasn't. Until he said that he'd never been to one. To him, a church was just a building. ~_~
-Since his father is supposedly bringing them up Christian, that's for him to teach them about and one discussion I'm not getting into. I'm there to make sure homework gets done.
But I was talking to my Dad about this and he made a comment that has had me thinking. He thought that it was a pity that the kids weren't going to some sort of church, because religion tended to be one of the major things that shaped one's morals and sense of right and wrong.
I've been kind of pondering that ever since... Just how much does religion reflect on a person's sense of morals or is something that is more dependant on the person?
er, does that make sense? ._.
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'Human Intelligence Instructor **Secret Clearance Required**'
Y'know, I can't make these sort of titles up. ^^;;
Physophical question of the
A while back, one the kids I watch was doing their spelling homework, making sentances with their spelling words. The sentance the kid came up with (and he was rather proud of this) was:
"We burned the church down to the ground."
I was kind of horrified by this, and steered the sentance to something else, also using the spelling words. But he couldn't understand why I was disturbed by this sentance and I couldn't figure why he wasn't. Until he said that he'd never been to one. To him, a church was just a building. ~_~
-Since his father is supposedly bringing them up Christian, that's for him to teach them about and one discussion I'm not getting into. I'm there to make sure homework gets done.
But I was talking to my Dad about this and he made a comment that has had me thinking. He thought that it was a pity that the kids weren't going to some sort of church, because religion tended to be one of the major things that shaped one's morals and sense of right and wrong.
I've been kind of pondering that ever since... Just how much does religion reflect on a person's sense of morals or is something that is more dependant on the person?
er, does that make sense? ._.
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Date: 2007-02-24 01:08 am (UTC)Not sure about that. Yes, most religions have strong moral systems, but I'm fairly certain that religious moral systems are not the most moral. I find that during my childhood, raised nominally anglican by anglican/agnostic parents, the religious institutions I encountered tended to display to me a moral code that went too far - at some point I could find a place in which that moral code broke, and began to oppress people (usually over sexuality, particularly homosexuality, but not always.)
Haven't found one that works yet, because most religious moral codes seem to be based in guilt and punishment.