When the Census results are released later this year they’ll demonstrate that more than a third of Australians are now non-religious. Jumping from 23% in the 2011 Census to as high as 38% (which was the number recorded in a 2016 Ipsos poll), the inexorable march towards a non-believing majority will then be undeniable. Evidently, neither school chaplaincy and the increasingly evangelical Bible classes in state schools, are arresting the freefall in Christian beliefs.
Soon classes in Secular Humanism and Rationalism will appear in Victorian schools. As part of the curriculum in “Learning about world views and religions”, these classes will seek to educate, rather than evangelise. …
But what if we secularists took a different approach? What …show more content…
Kids will be Hitch-slapped with the absurdity of the notion that our lives are governed by the diktats of a celestial tyrant, whose omnipotence created a universe with 100 billion galaxies and 200 septillion stars, and yet who is so prone to gossip and whimsy, that he takes a keen interest in the sexual habits, thoughts and prayers of one species of primate, on one tiny planet, in one lonely corner of the cosmos.
Bible-bashing will make way for Bible-debunking. The ‘Connect’ Scripture classes of today presenting the Bible as a “factual, historical document”, will be supplanted with classes exposing the “good” book as ahistorical, scientifically disproven, and conspicuously manmade. In place of Adam and Eve and evil serpents, classes will contain the proven science of how homo sapiens were borne from an ancestral grouping of humans which evolved over millions of years and is inseparable from our precursors. As surprising as it might seem to some - people never lived inside of whales, or joy-rode upon Dinosaurs. Nor did they live for 600 years before taking the plunge and having children. Koala’s did not wave goodbye to Noah and leap from tree to tree all the way to Australia without leaving any trace anywhere else. Donkeys and snakes DO NOT …show more content…
Does anyone really believe it took God and Moses 40 days and 40 nights to come up with the idea that murder is inadvisable? And we’ll show how Moses undermined the notion in his very next act, by ordering the death of three thousand followers for worshiping a golden calf? Should children who poke fun at bald men have their arms torn off by bears? Is there anything “moral” about scapegoating someone else to be tortured to death for our sins? These questions and many more, will all be answered before our end of term “God is dead” Sombrero
Soon classes in Secular Humanism and Rationalism will appear in Victorian schools. As part of the curriculum in “Learning about world views and religions”, these classes will seek to educate, rather than evangelise. …
But what if we secularists took a different approach? What …show more content…
Kids will be Hitch-slapped with the absurdity of the notion that our lives are governed by the diktats of a celestial tyrant, whose omnipotence created a universe with 100 billion galaxies and 200 septillion stars, and yet who is so prone to gossip and whimsy, that he takes a keen interest in the sexual habits, thoughts and prayers of one species of primate, on one tiny planet, in one lonely corner of the cosmos.
Bible-bashing will make way for Bible-debunking. The ‘Connect’ Scripture classes of today presenting the Bible as a “factual, historical document”, will be supplanted with classes exposing the “good” book as ahistorical, scientifically disproven, and conspicuously manmade. In place of Adam and Eve and evil serpents, classes will contain the proven science of how homo sapiens were borne from an ancestral grouping of humans which evolved over millions of years and is inseparable from our precursors. As surprising as it might seem to some - people never lived inside of whales, or joy-rode upon Dinosaurs. Nor did they live for 600 years before taking the plunge and having children. Koala’s did not wave goodbye to Noah and leap from tree to tree all the way to Australia without leaving any trace anywhere else. Donkeys and snakes DO NOT …show more content…
Does anyone really believe it took God and Moses 40 days and 40 nights to come up with the idea that murder is inadvisable? And we’ll show how Moses undermined the notion in his very next act, by ordering the death of three thousand followers for worshiping a golden calf? Should children who poke fun at bald men have their arms torn off by bears? Is there anything “moral” about scapegoating someone else to be tortured to death for our sins? These questions and many more, will all be answered before our end of term “God is dead” Sombrero