Dallas megachurch pastor Robert Morris has resigned after admitting having “inappropriate sexual behavior with a young lady” in the 1980s, after a woman accused him of molesting her when she was 12 years old.
I wonder how many times my dude preached about lgbtq folk being groomers...
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Yeah. I don't buy that. I went through the Catholic system and the last thing they did was indoctrinate me or anyone that I knew.
I think one of the best things they did was have a class on Religious education. Learning about other Religions helps one to understand Foreign cultures.
If it was an 'indoctrination scheme' then it was wildly incompetent and ineffective.
I think the indoctrination scheme is incompetent, but it's there. Religious education for me in high school was so dismissive and condescending of other religions which threw on a lightbulb for me of how wildly hypocritical it was that our "blind faith" is better than their "blind faith" that I bailed on religion altogether.
IMO the most important part of understanding other cultures and religions is to actually spend time with those people. Catholic school made it so I didn't grow up with any Muslims, Sikhs, Hindus etc. It wasn't until university that I really had an opportunity to get to know people from those walks of life. I'd rather kids build relationships and build empathy for other faiths and cultures from an early age.
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IMO the most important part of understanding other cultures and religions is to actually spend time with those people. Catholic school made it so I didn't grow up with any Muslims, Sikhs, Hindus etc. It wasn't until university that I really had an opportunity to get to know people from those walks of life. I'd rather kids build relationships and build empathy for other faiths and cultures from an early age.
Obviously you aren’t going to learn much about other religions in K-12 Catholic school. But then you don’t learn much about religions full-stop in public school either.
As for culture, have you been to a Calgary Catholic school recently? My daughter plays high school basketball, and her away games at Catholic schools had a more non-European student body than the regular public schools. I doubt there’s a more diverse student body in Calgary than Bishop McNally.
Most Christians in the world today are from outside North America and Europe. There’s a good chance the next pope will be African. Christian/Catholic = white European an outdated stereotype.
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As for culture, have you been to a Calgary Catholic school recently? My daughter plays high school basketball, and her away games at Catholic schools had a more non-European student body than the regular public schools. There are more Christians outside North America and Europe today than in them. There’s a good chance the next pope will be African. Christian/Catholic = white is an outdated stereotype.
I don't think "white = culture". A big component of culture is religion. Are there Muslim kids in school fasting for Ramadan? My kids are experiencing that and asking questions about it in public school.
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I don't think "white = culture". A big component of culture is religion. Are there Muslim kids in school fasting for Ramadan? My kids are experiencing that and asking questions about it in public school.
My Son went to All Saints High School in the deep south.
While there are students from lots off different countries and cultures, there aint much diversity in religious leanings.
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My Son went to All Saints High School in the deep south.
While there are students from lots off different countries and cultures, there aint much diversity in religious leanings.
How often does religion come up in everyday interaction between high school students? I’d say their family ethnic backgrounds are far more relevant when it comes to diversity and exposure to different cultures.
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How often does religion come up in everyday interaction between high school students? I’d say their family ethnic backgrounds are far more relevant when it comes to diversity.
It doesn't need to explicitly come up. It's just like kids that go to very affluent schools. They think it's "normal" for your parents to buy you a car when you're 16. It's "normal" to have your parents send you on a grade 12 trip to Europe.
Spending your time in a homogenous environment in any dimension reduces your opportunity to build empathy and understanding.
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It doesn't need to explicitly come up. It's just like kids that go to very affluent schools. They think it's "normal" for your parents to buy you a car when you're 16. It's "normal" to have your parents send you on a grade 12 trip to Europe.
Spending your time in a homogenous environment in any dimension reduces your opportunity to build empathy and understanding.
How is a school with 35 per cent European, 25 per cent Filipino, 15 per cent Vietnamese, 15 per cent Nigerian, and 10 per cent Hispanic population homogenous?
If I had to guess, I’d say my public high school was 50 per cent protestant, 20 per cent Catholic, 15 per cent Jewish, 10 per cent Mormon, and 5 per cent other. And it was 90 per cent born and raised in Canada white. Was it really more diverse than the Catholic school above just because it had more religious diversity?
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Short piece on why Alberta (Sask and Ontario) still have catholic schools.
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According to five years' worth of data from Alberta Education, enrolment in separate schools is growing 36 per cent faster than the province's enrolment, as a whole.
I expect that’s due to immigration patterns.
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