{"id":90525,"date":"2019-06-18T17:08:05","date_gmt":"2019-06-19T00:08:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=90525"},"modified":"2019-06-18T17:10:30","modified_gmt":"2019-06-19T00:10:30","slug":"sri-lankan-children-must-be-taught-comparative-religion-in-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/06\/18\/sri-lankan-children-must-be-taught-comparative-religion-in-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"SRI LANKAN CHILDREN MUST BE TAUGHT COMPARATIVE RELIGION IN SCHOOLS"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong>BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Teaching\nreligions have included to the school curriculum in Sri Lanka and students at\nprimary and secondary contexts are studied the subject, religion which is own\nreligion of kids in most instances and in rare occasions kids learn other\nreligions in schools than own religion.&nbsp;\nI observed that hate to other religions originates while kids are\nlearning own religions at schools as religious teachers in all religions\nattempt to convince students that other religions are mythical and indirectly\npromote to hate and insult them. Hating and insulting other religions have been\na common nature of the country since the second century AD and during the Portuguese\nera, this situation especially appeared in Christian schools and was\ncontinuing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Religions\nteach about life after death and nobody sees the truth about religion as at the\ntime of death, the material body is destroyed and nobody can see what is happening\nin the world after death.&nbsp; In this\nsituation, nobody can exactly say this religion is true and others are myths\nand people need to respect all religions than hating any religion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\ncurrent form of teaching religions in schools needs to be changed as it\npromotes hate among people on unknown matters. In many countries&#8217; kids are\ntaught comparative religion in which kids gain opportunities to learn the basic\nphilosophy of all religions and to respect other religions than own religion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Education\npolicymakers in Sri Lanka need to consider incorporating comparative religion\nto school curriculum than teaching a single religion to kids. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS Teaching religions have included to the school curriculum in Sri Lanka and students at primary and secondary contexts are studied the subject, religion which is own religion of kids in most instances and in rare occasions kids learn other religions in schools than own religion.&nbsp; I observed that hate to other religions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-edward-theophilus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90525\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}