Quote from EndlessDreams;616574:
It was a pretty interesting video although I already kind of knew that religions take ideas from other religions in the past.
Nope, it shouldn't be taught in schools outside religious studies class at all. I don't think that religious studies should be taught in public grade school at all. It is still religion, and I highly doubt many politicians in the US wants to teach something that "attacks" their religious "fundamentals".
On the other side, there are more important things that schools should teach, like Math and Science. At least, in grade school.
If you meant at the university level, it would seem like a great video for a religious study class.
Oh yea, I realize that this would never actually be brought into schools haha at least in this day in age. Just pairing this video along with the other I was more curious about whether or not this should be taught in schools based on the reasoning that people should be able to draw conclusions for themselves or be more open and questioning about things around them.
It almost feels like schools are preventing over education.
It seems odd that religion plays such a big part in society yet in reality there is so little common knowledge about it. I mean if religion influences society to such a great extent even more than some history taught in history classes wouldn't that make it more important to be educated about?
But again..as you pointed out it's a very touchy subject D= and would never be allowed atm.
Quote from Sayoko;616595:
Very interesting video. True, Christianity/Judaism may have stole ideas from older religions, but I kind of disagree with the fact that the Judaism was polytheistic
The one problem I saw was at 6:49, the narrator completely misunderstands that verse. "Now I know Yahweh is greater than all other gods" does not indicate that the Jewish were polytheist and actually believed in the other gods. It's kinda like saying today "I know that Christianity is true and so and so's native american beliefs have no power".
Also, people stray from "God" all the time, whether they switch religions, become atheist, w/e. However, it does not mean that Christianity is actually polytheist because of people that choose not to believe.
Much of the video feels like guesswork, not much actual evidence to prove right or wrong either way. The later portions of the video also ASSUME that all the historical documenting in the bible (aka prophets/kings did what the bibles said they did) were accurate while the earlier portions argued it wasn't (aka no proof egyptians enslaved jews).
Where's the proof that what narrator said is accurate? Rewritten by Josiah? It's a possibility but no proof..just an inference.
Expanding on what I replied to in earlier quote, I have no way to prove what this person said is accurate nor do I believe it to be 100% true. So as far as it being taught in schools..again I was more pairing it to the idea that perhaps seeing as certain things are important history should the door be opened for people to be educated and at least draw conclusions for themselves.
I'm under the impression based on some of his other videos that a lot of his facts come from books/other sources and he complied them into this easy to understand video, although I do not doubt some things are left up to interpretation.
Rather than argue the details about the video itself I'm more curious about questioning things is all.
Such as with the second video, while science and math may be important in schools it's the un-education about a lot of things regarding religion and other issues that is causing fundamental problems with society which is why I'm just curious as to how others feel about this.
Maybe I should rephrase my question..
Do you feel that society should encourage people to question things, rather than forcing beliefs onto others at an early age? Like I was raised Jewish and never questioned anything, things were done that way, god existed and I just lived like that..now with some religions that create problems by condemning others do you not feel that if people were raised to be more open minded(perhaps more philosophy in schools?) that some of these problems could be prevented.
I'm more looking long term..like a more accepting culture. Even just looking at these videos and going "hey, I don't know if this is true but it makes me question things" is a start.