This is just the modern attempt to teach secularized religion. The essence of religion will be scorned. A secularized interpretation of religion will be indoctrination and this indoctrination will be supported by intolerance. So once again the ones who will suffer will be the young whose minds and hearts are beginning to open in an environment that seeks to close them. Simone Weil wrote:Part of the problem is that RE is a statutory subject and has to be taught, but it is not part of the National Curriculum and so RE can be taught in any way. It means that while some schools follow a multi-faith syllabus, others limit their pupils to one faith.
This has been exacerbated by the freedoms given to Academy and Free Schools, which can be used creatively but are also open to abuse by those wishing to blinker their pupils into a single world-view.
It would be much healthier to have a National Curriculum for RE, with all schools having to teach all belief-systems (including humanism), providing a balanced inclusive education.
This would be partly a matter of general knowledge, and partly as preparation for citizenship, so that children are equipped to emerge into a diverse society.
Secular intolerance is the result of the rejection of the reality of objective meaning.That is why St. John of the Cross calls faith a night. With those who have received a Christian education, the lower parts of the soul become attached to these mysteries when they have no right at all to do so. That is why such people need a purification of which St. John of the Cross describes the stages. Atheism and incredulity constitute an equivalent of such a purification.
- Simone Weil, Faiths of Meditation; Contemplation of the divine
the Simone Weil Reader, edited by George A. Panichas (David McKay Co. NY 1977) p 418
The last sentence she wrote in the notebook found after her death was: "The most important part of education--to teach the meaning of to know (in the scientific sense)."
The whole of Simone Weil is contained in these few words.
- Biographical Note, Simone Weil, Waiting for God (GP Putnam's Sons 1951, Harper 1975) p xi
Simone Weil has observed: "There are two atheisms of which one is a purification of the notion of God."
- William Robert Miller (ed.), The New Christianity (New York: Delacorte Press 1967) p 267; in Paul Schilling,
Greta wrote: Why can't forms be dispassionately studied and considered, with the ancient metaphysical baggage removed?
Traditionally, the word Metaphysics comes to us from Ancient Greece, where it was a combination of two words – Meta, meaning over and beyond – and physics. Thus, the combination means over and beyond physics.
Simone asks what it means to know in science. Secularism doesn’t even admit the question. Yet to know means not only knowing facts but their meaning and objective value in terms of a conscious human perspective. Studying the facts with the scientific method is one thing Contemplating the relationship between forms as ideas and their manifestation into things and the objective meaning of the process requires more than a computer mind. No matter how much the Borg learn they will never experience the calling of conscious human perspective since it isn’t a part of their dominant mechanical origin. What defies the Borg must be absorbed just as the calling of eros must be absorbed by secularism.
We simply do not appreciate the human purpose and value of education so have settled for the belief in secular indoctrination for public schools. Abortion has become a secular good so why not spirit killing as well? After all, it is considered progress by experts.