On the assignment sheet, students were asked to answer the overall research question about how the world began. Students were also asked to ponder the following questions:
- How did the world start?
- Who started it?
- When did evil start or did it always exist?
- Are people inherently good or evil or neither?
- What is morality?
- What is religion?
- What is Christianity?
- What does it mean to be a Christian?
- Is God real?
- Is Satan real?
“I don’t care what anyone says,” Gray said. “If you start out with, ‘How was the world started and then who started it,’ that implies it wasn’t science [and] that it was an entity, a person, a being.”
that’s one of the most important features of mandatory religious indoctrination-- any kids who aren’t jesusey enough become targets of bullying/discrimination, and seeing how bullies face no consequences already, then it’s not hard to see even the most skeptical kids start toeing the line