Physophical Question of the Day:
Feb. 23rd, 2007 05:22 pmBizzare Job Opening of the Day:
'Human Intelligence Instructor **Secret Clearance Required**'
Y'know, I can't make these sort of titles up. ^^;;
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? ._.
impfics: Murder on the Dancefloor (Kazuha/Heiji)
'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? ._.
no subject
Date: 2007-02-24 05:31 am (UTC)I don't believe in legislating morality. I don't like being told what to think. I don't like the idea that I have no control over my own destiny--because honestly, it seems so contradictory. Praise and worship and do good deeds for your salvation...but God has a master plan. If there's already the plan, what does it matter what you do? And I ESPECIALLY don't like being told that certain friends of mine are going to hell because they're GLBT.
Now you've got me thinking... *slaps agnostic badge on front of shirt* I think I need to stop before I start totally babbling. Organized religion and I get along about as famously as lemon juice and a paper cut.