I'd never heard the term, NewEarthers, or OldEarthers for that matter....Must live in a parallel universe, I guess....so I looked the term up....here one, but it doesn't seem that it's a wide flung group.
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I too, think that teachers have no business at all TEACHING religion, other than that there is such a religion, and in one paragraph, tell the overriding tenant of the religion and approximately the number of "converts."
I think it is madness afoot, if we think we should not even bring the subject to our children in school, since religion is such a major part of nearly everyone on earth's belief system. EVEN those who profess to have NO religion, act as if THAT belief system of theirs is in fact their guiding light, and should be everyone elses as well. Some religions definitely want to convert everyone "or else they die..." It is up to the parents and outside sorces to teach any more than that, IMO.
Bit different subject, but somewhat the same. One grown son just got back from China for 10 days...first trip, and certainly first business trip. He, who is usually never at a loss for words, said in a phone call tonight to us, that the cities he went to there and the businesses' he visited, were simply beyond anything he expected, even if he had studied China for some time.
One place has several buildings in a HUGE complex on thousands of acres....One building alone houses 150,000!!!!! workers on one shift! There are two shifts....They work from 7 in the morning, 1 1/2 hour lunch break, have one hour of college level class of their choice in the building, go back to work, dinnner break of 1 1/2 hours, and back to work till midnight. Every day 24-7. This company pays their people $100 for an entire month.
Another large company he visited pays their people $3.00 (yes that is right) per month!!!!
And that was just the start....
Americans....WAKE UP! We simply have to have our young people better educated, and being much harder workers. Talk about impact on a global economy....
We don't have the luxury of letting them take basket weaving #4, and how to skip school #6....
I'm sure we will have more about this emerging world force in time.....and probably not too far in the future, at that. |
