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Originally posted by whitewave
My son told me about this book reading assignment at the beginning of his 5th grade school year. I was very unhappy to hear that while my child is forbidden to pray in school, hear about God in school, concepts such as selling your soul to the devil is perfectly acceptable in school.
The teacher tried to pass it off as harmless because it was on some best-seller list and "highly recommended by the board of education". I bet it was.
The secular humanist indoctrination is bad enough but REQUIRED reading about selling your soul in order to gain riches was beyond the pale! Yeah, no agenda here.
A biology teacher in Brazil is being sued for asking students to masturbate for a class project.
The teacher asked three teenagers to provide sperm samples (in other words: masturbate) so the class could study sperm under the microscope.
One of the students told his parents about the incident. His shocked parents immediately notified the police.
A spokesman for the police said: "It is a disrespectful and bizarre thing to ask a student, we are all horrified."
The school, located in Campo Grande, Rio de Janeiro, says it's equally appalled by the biology teacher's behaviour.
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My son told me about this book reading assignment at the beginning of his 5th grade school year. I was very unhappy to hear that while my child is forbidden to pray in school, hear about God in school, concepts such as selling your soul to the devil is perfectly acceptable in school.
Originally posted by smyleegrl
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My son told me about this book reading assignment at the beginning of his 5th grade school year. I was very unhappy to hear that while my child is forbidden to pray in school, hear about God in school, concepts such as selling your soul to the devil is perfectly acceptable in school.
May I ask what book he was required to read?
Originally posted by iamsupermanv2
The idea of selling your soul to the devil is as old as time, and most entertainment has touched on this at one point or another.
Reading a fictitious story about a guy selling his soul to the devil is not a "secular humanist indoctrination", it's a story.
And, if I am correct, most of these stories end in the person being miserable. The lesson is that if you give your life to evil, or if you give your life to physical things, you will be miserable. A good less regardless of religious affiliation.
Although, I commend you for actually being involved in what your child was reading. I know a lot of parents don't even bother to ask.
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Actually the story ends with the man keeping his soul and all the gold that the devil allotted him as well as having a fine wife. Wonder what the lesson is in this version?
The hell that has the most suffering is the Avici Hell. The suffering of Avici Hell is clearly described in the Ksitigarbha Sutra. The first suffering is uninterrupted time, meaning there is no rest. The suffering is continuous, there is no respire for even one minute or one second. The second suffering is uninterrupted space. In Avici Hell, space is filled with one or many persons. If there is a lot of space, a person will multiply himself until he occupies all the space. So this hell can be full with only one person. The third is uninterrupted suffering. One has to suffer all the kinds of suffering in the world. There is no hell which has more suffering than this Avici Hell. Such suffering is called unlimited suffering. The fourth suffering is uninterrupted grade, meaning this hell does not differentiate, whether one is a god in heaven, a human in the human realm, a hungry ghost within the ghost realm or an animal within the animal realm. If one "qualified", anyone can enter Avici Hell and receive the same treatment. The fifth suffering is uninterrupted life. There are numerous lives and deaths within a day and a night, and, between one life and one death, one suffers.
Lot of hypocrites on this thread.
Had the story been about, "How would you give your life for God?" then everyone in this thread would be against it.
But, "How would you sell your soul to the devil?", well that's just okay, apprently?