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Originally Posted by mykalberta
Not sure what social studies course you took, but in Alberta public schools SS 03-30 had nothing to do with religion at all at least in the late 90's. The only thing that comes close are when we went through the history of Japan/ww2 and briefly went over how the emperor was considered a living god.
While I dont know alot of the specifics of Canadian law - there should be a separation of church and state. No province should be shoving religion down the throats of students - I dont care in what form or for what purpose.
Forcing them to take this course from grade 1 to 12 - only in QC.
There were religion courses taught, but your parents could choose that you opt out. The time spent drawing 60 minutes a week durring grades 2-6 - what memories
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Please don't sit there and lie to me. You learned a lot more in school than just that.
This has absolutely nothing to do with pushing religion on people whatsoever. I really don't understand what issue anyone would have with teaching children facts, beliefs, origins and important figures associated with major religions.
Do you also support not teaching children about the holocaust because there is a religious context to that as well? Crusades? Martin Luther and the reformation? KKK? Anything that mentions the word "Monarchy"? Just about any historical fact?
In order to understand history you need to know a lot of the facts surrounding certain events. Why events have happened over the course of world history have been at subtly influenced or directly related to religion.
That is a simple statement of fact.