Sweden wants to curb religious teaching in (private) Christian schools

OneNewsNow ^ | 10/21/07 | AP

[wagglebee]

STOCKHOLM, Sweden - The government of Sweden wants to curb the influence of religious instruction in private Christian schools.

Education Minister Jan Bjorklund told a Swedish newspaper that new rules being drafted by the government would ban religious elements in subjects other than religion, such as biology. He said, "Students must be protected from every form of fundamentalism."

Bjorkland's spokeswoman says, "A student shouldn't be able to pass a natural science test by answering that God created the world. We don't think that's OK."

She said the new rules, which need parliamentary approval, would be introduced in 2009.

[wagglebee]

Mandatory secularism is the religion of the left.

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[fetal heart beats by 21st day]

Of course.

Only fools would believe atheists are content with keeping us from the public square.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Oh, it goes well beyond that. That some student believes that "God made the world" is not the Swedish government's real concern. (Not that any religious believers of any stripe would be in the least inclined to refuse the study of geology on scriptural grounds --- total strawman argument.)

The explicit aim is to prevent all private or religious schools from teaching any religious doctrine as if it were true.

Although the majority of Swedes are still baprized inthe Church of Sweden (Lutheran), God knows there are precious few Swedish Lutherans who "hold their doctrines as true" and thus threaten the serenity of the secular state. I think we can safely infer that their real target is the Muslim community, which they cannot legally repress without also repressing the Christians "equally."

The ultimate irony is that they will bring their hammer down hard on the relative handful of Swedish Pentecostals and maybe --- maybe --- Catholics (if any of them are worth repressing) and the Muslims will ignore any attempts to relativize or secularize Islam, which is typically more zealous in the children of immigrants than it was in their parents.

And by 2010 they'll have the same policy in the UK.

Truly, it's all very depressing, but not at all surprising.

[samiam1972]

“A student shouldn’t be able to pass a natural science test by answering that God created the world. We don’t think that’s OK.”

It makes more sense this way.

“A student shouldn’t be able to pass a natural science test by answering that God created the world. We don’t think at all and that’s OK with us.”

[wagglebee]

Your tagline doesn’t make any sense, you were a mommy long before the new baby was born!

[HarleyD]

The more they suppress the truth, the greater the opportunity. God will not be stopped.

[353FMG]

Not much different from what is happening here in the US. Also, the real danger that we are all subjected to is ignored by our government for politically correct reasons.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-eqxWIHKZg

[samiam1972]

Better? ;o)

[wagglebee]

What would you do without me? :-)

[NYer]

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[I_like_good_things_too]

Hey, wagglebee, this is your future if you destroy the only thing that stands between Christian freedom and the leftists. (that would be the republican party aka the coalition between fiscal/ traditional conservatives & the religious conservatives)

It’s stunning you can’t see it.

[wagglebee]

I’m not the Rooty Rooter who is trying to destroy the GOP, that would be YOU.

[Leapofaith]

They have problems with Islam. Why attack Christianity? Does this lend new meaning to Stockholm Syndrome?

[Leapofaith]

They have problems with Islam. Why attack Christianity? Does this lend new meaning to Stockholm Syndrome?

[wagglebee]

Great point!

[Unam Sanctam]

Regardless of the merits, could the tone be any more condescending and arrogant toward religious believers?

[wagglebee]

I think that was their intent.