41. Activities For Religous Communities Suggest that the teachers of religious education teach a lesson about landmines and cluster munitions, including the efforts of children to raise awareness and http://www.banminesusa.org/involved/religousCommunities.html

Get Involved Activities for Religious Communities Work with your congregation or a neighboring one to make cluster bombs a part of a worship service. Click here for a church bulletin insert. Many faith organizations have made statements opposing use of cluster bombs and landmines. Click here to read these statements. 1. Pray for Victims of Cluster Bombs and Landmines Include in your prayer service a remembrance of past, present and future victims of landmines and cluster bombs, and pray for the United States to support global efforts to ban the use of these highly indiscriminant weapons, which kill and maim so many civilians. Use this opportunity to inform your congregation about the urgency to address the international cluster bomb crisis and to clean up our past messes. A ringing of church bells may be included in the service to heighten the awareness of the public of these activities. There are many Scripture Readings that relate to and support a ban on landmines and cluster bombs. Following are a couple that you may wish to incorporate into your prayer service:

42. Catholic Schools 2007 And Into The Future • Offer religious education teach about Catholic faith. • Open to acceptance. • Spiritually grounded - make spirituality grow. • Talk about religion in class. http://www.pvnccdsb.on.ca/library/Publications/ConsultationReport.pdf

43. Dharmaling Forums -> Community Blog List Would religious education teach something completely different what is taught in science? It is to our opinion good that religions can be presented in primary school, as they are http://www.dharmaling.org/forums/index.php?app=blog&module=display&secti

44. Countryside Church Religious Education For Children And Youth your name next to those areas in which you'd like to participate (If there are two parents/guardians, you may both use this form) RE = religious education _Teach in http://www.ccuu.org/forms/RE Registration Form 06.07.pdf

45. Saganist: May 2009 One of the fastest ways to turn a believer into a nonbeliever is religious education. Teach someone, especially a child, an honest and objective overview of Christianity, Islam http://saganist.blogspot.com/2009_05_01_archive.html

skip to main skip to sidebar Saganist Star Stuff Contemplating Star Stuff Tuesday, May 26, 2009 Religious ignorance is faith's ally Lately I've been reading 50 Reasons People Give for Believing in a God by Guy Harrison. I like it. Last night, the following passage struck me as interesting, so I thought I would share it. [O]ne of the fastest ways to turn a believer into a nonbeliever is religious education. Teach someone, especially a child, an honest and objective overview of Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, traditional Chinese beliefs, Buddhism, animism, Sikhism, Judaism, Jainism, Bahism, plus the basics of a few extinct religions, and there is a good chance that this enlightened person will have a hard time convincing themselves that one of these belief systems is valid and all the others are not. Religious ignorance is faith's ally. Religious education is faith's enemy. I've found this to be true for me as well. It's interesting to me how fundamentally similar the claims of many religions are, and this becomes increasingly clear as one learns more about other religions. Each set of religious followers is as convinced of their own religion's truth as the others are of theirs. Usually based on the same evidence, too: experience, testimony, visions, miracles, holy writings, etc. How is one to judge the truth of one religion over the others with such conflicting claims? Why is my religion more likely to be true than any other religion? Because it's mine? Because I happened to be born in this place at this time in history? I doubt it.

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