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Originally Posted by wildsage  Maybe that's what frustrates so many of us non-religionists: we are bombarded with continued efforts to convince us that someone's preferred religious flavor is the right & only one. In our country it is predominantly the Christian belief -- though when it is convenient they include "Judeo-" in with it.
Perhaps the you, along with the other 3 or 4 substantial posters on this thread, truly would like to learn about all the other religious beliefs. Would they all really get equal time? I suspect that most of the Christians would only accept that -- teaching all the other beliefs -- if they were prefaced and appended with a statement about how ridiculous and unbelievable those (other) myths are.
There have been hundreds if not thousands of successive and concurrent cultures with their own beliefs and all of the theisms have distinct similarities with some of the others (which raises the hypothesis that Man created God and not the other way around): good & evil, living right & punishment for transgression, supplication & answered prayers, spirit & afterlife, etc. Which creation story rings truer: the belief that man was made out of mud then wood and finally maize, or that God made Adam from the dust of the earth and then made Eve from a rib bone? The first made sense to the Incans...
IMO, the biggest difference between the extinct religions, along with the existing tribal ones, and the current Big Three groups (Abrahamic, Indian, Far Eastern -- remember, you aren't alone in "knowing" that your choice is the right one) is the written word which allowed the “modern” theisms to propagate, institutionalize and endure. |
Today's scientific myths and gradious stories are no more plausible, no more provable, no more testable, no more feasible than any of the religious stories. So, if you begin the lectures on that with "y'all ain't heard nothin' yet! Yuck yuck" just like you want the religious stories taught, I'd be okay with that.