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26-Oct-2010, 09:53 AM
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I did a bit of searching and found that the poem is actually one of the
Olney Hymns which were written for a Christian evangelical preacher. This is not literature. You could take it up in court that its inclusion in the syllabus constitutes a violation of some sort.
I doubt that any general appeal to reason will fail on a popular level. I think one easy way to get that hymn out of the syllabus would be to make a lot of noise about it being Christian proselytism forced on our kids. But I'm not sure about this, and such a move might set things off and end up being counter-productive on multiple levels. Perhaps the better approach would be to seek a constitutional recourse by appealing to separation of religion and state.
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(26-Oct-2010, 09:53 AM)Ajita Kamal Wrote: I did a bit of searching and found that the poem is actually one of the Olney Hymns which were written for a Christian evangelical preacher. This is not literature. You could take it up in court that its inclusion in the syllabus constitutes a violation of some sort.
I doubt that any general appeal to reason will fail on a popular level. I think one easy way to get that hymn out of the syllabus would be to make a lot of noise about it being Christian proselytism forced on our kids. But I'm not sure about this, and such a move might set things off and end up being counter-productive on multiple levels. Perhaps the better approach would be to seek a constitutional recourse by appealing to separation of religion and state.
The text book says that it was composed by
William Cowperd. This is wrong on so many levels, it says atheism is wrong, we should not judge God etc. These are unacceptable to teach in school. Its christians' teaching in disguise.
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26-Oct-2010, 02:24 PM
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(26-Oct-2010, 11:55 AM)shrihara Wrote: (26-Oct-2010, 09:53 AM)Ajita Kamal Wrote: I did a bit of searching and found that the poem is actually one of the Olney Hymns which were written for a Christian evangelical preacher. This is not literature. You could take it up in court that its inclusion in the syllabus constitutes a violation of some sort.
I doubt that any general appeal to reason will fail on a popular level. I think one easy way to get that hymn out of the syllabus would be to make a lot of noise about it being Christian proselytism forced on our kids. But I'm not sure about this, and such a move might set things off and end up being counter-productive on multiple levels. Perhaps the better approach would be to seek a constitutional recourse by appealing to separation of religion and state.
The text book says that it was composed by William Cowperd. This is wrong on so many levels, it says atheism is wrong, we should not judge God etc. These are unacceptable to teach in school. Its christians' teaching in disguise.
Yes, William Cowperd wrote these Olney Hymns along with a preacher. Its interesting how the text book leaves out the part about the evangelical preacher and just mentions Cowperd.
"Fossil rabbits in the Precambrian"
~ J.B.S.Haldane, on being asked to falsify evolution.