The new King Hussein Mosque is pictured after a rain shower in Amman, Jordan, April 16. Pope Benedict XVI will visit the mosque and meet with Muslim leaders there May 9, during his weeklong trip to the Holy Land. (CNS/Bill Schaefer)
Posted on 04/17/2009 1:44:53 PM PDT by NYer
So?
Can’t say I blame them. I don’t want my schools teaching Islam. Perhaps teaching what Islam is (as one of the major world religions), but not teaching the actual faith.
So there is a great deal of ignorance within the Jewish community with respect to Catholicism and Christianity. That ignorance is manifest in the positions, policies, and actions of individual Jews and the nation of Israel. It shows that Judaism remains a religion of exclusion just as it was when Christ came to bring the New and Everlasting Covenant and extended the faith to all peoples.
Islam teaches about the Christianity and Jewish religions. They teach we are apes and dogs.
Is this something I’m supposed to get all incensed about? Sorry.
Although true, it has absolutely nothing to do with the original story or my comments.
I agree it would be better to educate about other religions. But there are worse things to worry about.
Do they teach a lot about Judaism in Christian schools? Should they?
No one is suggesting that Israeli schools should evangelize the Jewish children, but since Catholicism is the single greatest factor is shaping the Western Civilization, one would think that that most Western of Asian countries, itself shaped by immigrants from the West, would have some interest in educating their kids a bit more broadly.
Ok, why would this be news? Does anyone think that Jewish schools should teach Christianity since they don’t believe it? Jews, by definition, don’t accept Christ as the savior so therefore they wouldn’t teach it. What is this article about? Is it about trying to turn Christians against Jews, is it trying to justify muslims for not allowing Christians, or Jews, into their countries? I don’t see the point of this article.
Actually, quite a bit. ;-)
You don't think this is related? BS, it is exactly the same. We don't want values we don't believe in taught in our schools, Jews don't teach values they don't believe in and that includes Christianity. Anyone who thinks differently is a hypocrite of the highest order.
Chr*stianity did not claim to "extend the faith to all peoples." It claimed to replace `Am Yisra'el with the chr*stian church and the Torah with a post-Biblical ceremonial drawn mostly from paganism.
Actually, quite a bit. ;-)
Name the school, name the curriculum, what course number is the course of Judaism? What's the name of it?
You want to figure out Western culture, learn Catholicism. It is a matter of education, for the Jews’ own sake.
Teaching about something isn’t the same as advocating it. I studied classical mythology in school. If you had a proper education in Western Civilisation, so did you — but no one expects us to embrace those stories as true.
Christianity is a reality in a great part of the world. So is islam. You can’t understand history or other cultures while being ignorant of the beliefs that underlie everything they do.
Israeli educators are doing their students no favors by confining them to a ghetto worldview that cripples their ability to deal with people who aren’t just like them.
When I was a kid (from as early as I can remember) my parents were Sunday School teachers. My parents were good teachers and really made it come alive and all the Biblical characters (many of whom were my heros like David and Daniel and even Job) were Jewish.
We grew up with lots of Jewish friend and family so I was quite shocked when I learned that I wasn't Jewish.
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