Oh My God

[serafina20]

If your religious beliefs prevent you from teaching Greek mythology--a religion that I don't think has been really practiced since, well, the Greeks rules--then you probably shouldn't be a teacher. Seriously, reading Greeks myths is not the same as a. studying religion or b. anything close to a theological system. They don't tell anything about the religion! They're just adventure stories about what the gods and goddess did.

And if you're so anti-mythology, why the hell are you a literature teacher?

Comments

[nataliadarimini.livejournal.com]

That?
Is absolutely ridiculous.
I am amazed.

[serafina20.livejournal.com]

It is ridiculous. It comepletely blows my mind.

[mobiusklein.livejournal.com]

I think that's incredibly silly considering that Greek mythology's pretty much a dead religion and it's an integral part of our culture references. Besides, look at the many books with stories where the characters' religions are integral to the storyline (remembers, I think the name of the book is The Promise, where a Hasidic rabbi's son and a regular Jewish boy becomes friends despite their many differences) and there's other books like The Far Pavilions that mention Hinduism, Islam, etc. (I have no idea what religion the teacher is, but these are the first examples that came into my head)

[serafina20.livejournal.com]

I think that's incredibly silly considering that Greek mythology's pretty much a dead religion and it's an integral part of our culture references.

I know! She's also afraid that the kids are going to be converted to the religion by reading the myths because they're so interested in astrology and witchcraft. This lady is compeltely offensive and stupid.

*boggles*

[mecurtin.livejournal.com]

Let me be sure I've got this straight.

A public school teacher (in CA, I assume) says her "Christian" beliefs dictate that she not even teach kids about a religion that hasn't been practiced for well over a thousand years? Even though references to that religion have been woven all through the subject she's teaching during that thousand years?

Are there no other works in the curriculum that are about non-Christians? Is she really being allowed to teach in a public school?

Re: *boggles*

[serafina20.livejournal.com]

A public school teacher (in CA, I assume) says her "Christian" beliefs dictate that she not even teach kids about a religion that hasn't been practiced for well over a thousand years?

It was something to that effect. She *may* have been more worried that by teaching them stories from this dead religion, they might want to convert, but she did state that it conflicted with her beliefs. I honestly don't know if she's from CA, though; I saw her post somewhere online.

Is she really being allowed to teach in a public school?

Apparently so. I'm as flabergasted as you are.