Report Teach Christianity

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by: anonymousstudent

saffronsmum wrote:

"The idea of someone trying to teach christianity to children terrifies me. Intolerance, bigotry racism, homophobia and all the others "isms" are not what I want my child to learn. The main reason my baby attends the (superb) nursery she does is because of the importance they place on multi culturalism. It's right that children learn about all faiths and learn to understand and respect each others beliefs."

As a Christian, I am amazed at hearing this. Christianity follows the teaching of Jesus who teaches children to respect all religions and accept everybody as a loved and cherished child of God, regardless of their faith, race or sexuality. I believe children should be shown a non-biased account of ALL (including Christianity!) religions so they can choose which to follow when they are older. By saying Christianity teaches "intolerance, bigotry, racism and homophobia" you are showing you have no true understanding of Christianity and you are showing no respect for it, the very opposite of your wishes for the attitude children should have ("Understand and respect eachothers beliefs"). If you had been saying the Muslim faith taught bigotry etc, you would soon be responded to with outrage. Just because it is Christianity, I do not think people should ignore the disrespect and ignorance you have shown about our faith. There are many Bible quotes promoting equality of human beings (Gal 3:28 “There is no difference between Jews and Gentiles, between slaves and free people, between men and women; you are all one in union with Christ Jesus")etc. Bigotry goes completely against the doctrine of the faith.

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