The education system needs to be overhauled.
The kids need the tools for life experience.
The teachers cannot teach in fact they cannot even spell or add up
Books that were once prescribed reading are now banned
White man killed the black man
Never the other way round
Truth has been executed along with the truth teller
Maybe we need God back in our schools
But not on God's terms

PJack,
Six day Creationism is not a part of Jewish / Christian ethics it is an aside.

The 10 commandments might be a part of ethics but they do not mention the 6 day creation. They teach equality and respect of all and aspirations for high ideals of character. Values that are sadly lacking in popular music, video games and so called entertainment. Violence, drunkenness, aggression and social destruction is the food fed to teenagers today in what they listen to and value.

In fact Judaism, Islam, Zoroastrianism and Christianity all teach divine intervention in the origin of all reality. That man has a responsibility and accountable for his being. Six day Creationist is just a red herring and not involved in Christian ethics. I attend Church regularly and only heard it preached once in the last ten years.

That Human society has purpose and responsibility is a Christian view of ethics rather than just an accidental emergence from mud with no higher purpose than existence to feed ones appetites.

Political correctness should be outed as well. Where is the science in feminism? Repudiation of science is the truth of it.

Amazed that Eighties feminist bores (more like razorback boars) ensconced in education promote 'alternative' (read as feminist), interpretations of Shakespeare, and put boys off literature forever by insisting they read Jane Austen (again from the hard line feminist perspective).

Maybe some here who are trenchant critics of religion can demonstrate why the elephant in the room, the Political Correct B.S., shouldn't suffer the same fate as religious studies? A return to the old school inspectors in guvvy schools please.

Chris,

A bit off-topic but your assertion that " .... White man killed the black man Never the other way round .... "

is not accurate, at least for South Australia. There were far more killings of whites by blacks (and blacks by blacks) in the early days than the other way around, at least from the official record. We could start with the killing of 28 whites, shipwrecked on the Coorong :)

And as for hangings, my colleague Alistair Crooks has been transcribing those from 1838 until 1964. The last Aboriginal man to be hanged in SA was in 1862, the last white man in 1964. The great majority of death sentences for Aboriginal people were commuted, especially those of Blacks killing Blacks. And in Alistair's transcriptions, only two Aboriginal boys, out of 57, were caned or flogged between 1910 and the 1960s, and that only for robbery rather than the usual sex crimes.

But your point about the truth is key to what kids should be taught, not ideology but reality and truth, evidence rather than assertion.

Joe
www.firstsources.info

I don't think Christopher Pyne is seeking to introduce creationism necessarily but it is concerning that religion is creeping back into schools more formally.

It seems for every step forward, the Libs move the country one step back each time they are in government. Labor was not much better with their decision to keep the Chaplaincy program, which highlights the influence of certain lobbies in Australia.

Australia is a secular society and if Christianity is taught in schools then to avoid discrimination there should be Islamic, Buddhist and all manner of other religious instruction. Why not just teach an overall history of religion and leave it at that.

The government should not be used by certain groups as an indoctrination tool for any religious agenda.

Much rather religion be a private and personal matter leaving governments, through the public schools system, out of it altogether.

pelican,
The development history of Australia is based on the views, passions and actions of its people. You might prefer to have any influences by Christians wiped from the history of Australia, but much of it was developed by people of the Christian faith; i.e John Flynn, Mary McKilop. Our early laws and justice was formulated by people of the Christian faith. Do you call that teaching religion in schools? Islam and Hinduism played very little in the development of the institutions of our society, though they want to bring about historical change today. The Afghan cameliers to the Northern territory may have been Muslim but that was incidental to their role in Australian History; It did not happen as a conviction of their faith, but as experienced desert dwellers.