Unity of People Needed - Not A Cast System Created

[iris89]

Unity of People Needed - Not A Cast System Created By Sectarian Education

Some suggest that religious groups should run public-ally funded schools as denominational propaganda institutes. To justify this society destroying concept, they say that the parents want it, but do NOT mention the negative effects it has on society and a nation in general.

FIRST, Schools should be primarily to instruct students in reading, writing, mathematics, the sciences, and being good citizens - NOT propaganda mills for any denomination what-so-ever. Students need to learn to think for themselves and NOT be driven into group think by religious propaganda of any denomination.

SECOND, The results of cast systems by religions has in every instance of their existence proved detrimental to society and social integration. The great American civil rights worker, Martin Luther King, Jr. always stressed, for example, the need to have integrated schools so all can learn to live together and be good neighbors, but cast systems of any type promote dis-harmony within any society where they exist.

Several good examples of the detrimental effect of cast systems based on religious propaganda are Pakistan and India. India has worked to reverse the effect of religious cast systems because they realized they were tearing the nation apart and holding it back from progressing. India's efforts are now starting to pay dividends and the country is starting to move forward and progress in the modern world. Of course, it has not yet succeeded in reversing all the dis-harmony effects of the cast system, but is making progress. India's amount of progress is directly related to the degree is has reduced the negative effect of the religious cast system.

Now Pakistan has failed to work to eliminate the religious cast system, and the nation is becoming more violent and progressing toward anarchy - not process.

THIRD, a good example of some advocating institution of religious cast systems through propaganda religious schools was given by one of its advocates as follows,

"Bilingual Muslim children need state funded Muslim schools with bilingual
Muslim teachers as role models during their developmental periods. Muslims
have the right to educate their children in an environment that suits their
culture. This notion of "integration", actually means "assimilation", by
which people generally really mean "be more like me". That is not
multiculturalism."

This is a blatant example of negative thinking and an effort to promote dis-unity within a nation. This type of thinking will divide a nation and make it weaker and work to tear it apart; whereas, what is needed is just the opposite as society definitely does NOT need group think cast and second languages.

To wit, All schools should be denomination NEUTRAl and just teach the truth. Also, they should teach in the language of the country with a view of developing good citizens, not alien cultures. If some students do not speak the language of the country, the schools should provide a special course to make them proficient in the language of the country - not a foreign language.

FOURTH, My own life provides a good example of why a denominational neutral education is best for all students and prevents negative group think from occurring.

I was brought up in a none English speaking country with a different culture than the English speaking country I now live in, but I went to college in the English speaking country I now live in and took all my courses in English except the foreign language courses. If one moves to another country he/she should adapt to their customs and fit in as I did - to do the opposite is absurd. To NOT do so is NOT good for the new country or the individual, and I speak from experience.

But even before I went to a new country, owing to an excellent basic none denominational education I had learn to think for myself and NOT be influenced by destructive unity destroying religious group think. Now let’s look at my early life and learn:

When I was a very young girl in my native village, I never knew there were individuals so absurd as to believe in and pay adoration to worldly philosophers instead of to Almighty God (YHWH). I did know there were false god(s) and that some people even considered the ruler of their nation was a god such as the ancient Babylonians, Egyptians, etc., but I never imagine there were individuals so blind to reality, the truth per John 8:32, "And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free" (Authorized King James Bible; AV) that they would pay adoration to egotistical worldly philosophers and quote their absurd nonsense as if they considered it sacred scripture. As one individual, a cult member, I usually strongly disagree with brought out by posting the following scripture, Jeremiah 2:19, "Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee: know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and a bitter, that thou hast forsaken Jehovah thy God, and that my fear is not in thee, saith the Lord, Jehovah of hosts." (American Standard Version; ASV); ti wit, These individuals that pay adoration to worldly philosophers and treat their egotistical self-centered writings were for me as a young girl just unimaginable. I well knew of false god(s) such as the mythical god, the old middle eastern celestial Moon god, "Allah," who only exist in the imaginations of deceived men, but has no physical existence, and others, but I never thought anyone would be so absurd as to put their faith in worldly philosophers and the egotistical nonsense they write.

As I have said in part before, When I was a very young girl brought up in a religiously divided household I could readily see both cult religions represented were completely wrong. When I was about eight years old, I started a search for the true religion as I well knew neither Catholicism (RCC) nor Islam could be that. I was constantly at the local library in my native village trying to learn more and by the time I was about 10 years old, I had taught myself to read English since most of the books on history and religion were either in English or German. I selected English as I considered it the up and coming language.

My grandfather, when I was a little girl in my native village, taught me early on to never waste anything. I was brought up in a mixed family religious wise, but by the time I was about 8 years old and I had already ascertained that neither Islam or Catholicism held any truth, and had already determined they only contained creedal hogwash dogma and tradition. I did a rigorous search visiting libraries and checking encyclopedias, dictionaries, history books, etc. and in the process improved my reading and comprehension skills to a level far above my peers in school. I even taught myself how to read English, as I said previously, a foreign language for me, as it was NOT one of the two or three languages used in my home or community. My father died when I was only 6 years old, and my grandfather took over the task of raising myself and my sisters and brothers. He taught us to be independent and able to take care of ourselves and to think for ourselves, and that most religion was just plain phony. I learned to cultivate rice and wade in a rice patty, how to grow sugar cane, sweet potatoes, lettuce, etc. And my mother taught us how to cook all of our native dishes - mostly rice and bean dishes with a little bit of chicken. Until I went to New York City I had never heard of or eaten a hamburger or hot dog. But when my aunt took me to Coney Island, she got me both plus a candy corn cone. Subways were a mystery to me at first, as I thought it strange to go down into the earth to catch a train as the sugar cane train in my native village ran above ground.

When I was about 12, I was sent away from my native village to another country because the family thought I needed to learn more and I had exhausted the resources of our small library. They sent me to another country to a city with great library resources, New York City, USA. I loved the main library of that city in Manhattan, it had exceptionally great resources and even had electric lights so you did not have to sit by a window to read. Of course I had a problem the first year in the school there as all classes were in English which I had taught myself to read well, but I could NOT speak English as it was not one of the three languages I heard in my native village. By the age of 13, I saw most religions were totally wrong, but had narrowed my search to about 7 among which was the SDA. But the SDA when I did a comparison check in the big book that listed a 105 doctrines across the top in columns and religions in rows, page after page, I could see they were also in error.

It is imperative for a strong nation to have individuals that are NOT influenced by denominational destructive group think, but can think and reason for themselves.

FIFTH, AND CONCLUSION, Religion is supposed to be a positive force for peace and for love of neighbor, but most religion has been proven NOT to live up to being a positive force. In fact, for the last 3,000 years many wars have had an underlying religious cause. We have had our 100 year war of religion in Europe, The Crusades brought on by Islam lighting the proverbial fuse, and even in our modern era religion is behind most of the violence with one religion being responsible for over 90% of the violence in the world today. One Australian paper reported, <<<"Did you know that 90-95% of the conflicts in the world today are Muslims fighting non-muslims or each other?" [source - The Weekend Australian, November 26-27, 2005 AD]>>>.

So as can definitely be readily seen, most religions are definitely NOT living up to what is expected, namely, their being a positive force for peace and for love of neighbor.

To learn more, check out the following:

[1] religioustruths.proboards59.com/ An Educational Referral Forum

[2] www.network54.com/Forum/403209 A Forum Devoted to Exposing The False Religion of Islam

[3] jude3.proboards92.com/ A Free-Speech Forum For All

[4] www.freewebs.com/iris_the_preacher My web site.

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