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Book banning and modern education : Comments
By Peter Barnes, published 7/8/2015Scripture books promoting 'dangerous' messages about sex and male power are being used in NSW public schools, leading to calls for a crack down.
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And who knows what comparable implausible claims are equally guaranteed to be true by scripture teachers of non-Christian faiths.
Scripture is the only subject allowed in public schools in which the teacher is free to insist that children believe things that are both highly improbable and incapable of being verified. It is bad enough that scripture teachers are free to lie, as they do every time they tell children that they know for sure that Jesus died to save them from something, the lie being in their claim that they know this to be true when they don't. Nobody does. It is scandalous that the Education Department has no power to rein in scripture teachers who assure children, for example, that Jesus loves every child and listens to their prayers, something they might passionately believe but cannot possibly know to be true.
Books that assure children of the certain truth of highly improbable and clearly unverifiable claims in history, geography, mathematics etc. are, for very good reasons, not approved for use in public schools.Neither should they be allowed in Scripture, irrespective of which religion is attempting to press them upon the utterly helpless students which their equally helpless principals must, by law, herd into accessible groups so that scripture teachers can practise their missionary skills upon them.