Monday, April 11, 2005

I'm a cannibal?

Have you ever read something so profoundly stupid that you almost feel like banging your head against the table, or perhaps have even done so? Well, if you have, you can relate to how I felt after reading this story in the Daily Telegraph.
Teachers are being told not to mention that Communion bread and wine represent the body and blood of Christ in case children get it in their heads that Christians are cannibals.

New guidelines for religious education teachers also want them to refer to the Holy Spirit rather than the Holy Ghost because the latter implies "a trivial and spooky concept of the third person in the Trinity".

The guidelines, drawn up by education chiefs in Norfolk and condemned by the National Union of Teachers yesterday as "modernism gone mad", also consign the term Old Testament to the dustbin because pupils may believe it means its contents are no longer relevant.
I can almost understand the part about the Old Testament, but for the love of all that is holy (literally), this has to be a joke, right?

But wait, there's plenty of silliness for all the world's religions.
Christians are not alone in having the terms of their faith redefined. In teaching Judaism, teachers are told to refer to the "Western Wall" rather than "Wailing Wall", just in case the children believe that Jews are moaners.

Muslims should not be shown in photographs "holding swords, Kalashnikovs, etc" to avoid Islam being equated to terrorism.

Also out are pictures of Hindu holy men caked in mud because they give the impression that it is a religion for "weirdos or masochists".

As for Sikhs, the guidance says: "Do be careful when showing pupils the kachs. Without preparing pupils, they seem to some like merely voluminous underpants and can give rise to a poor response."
This isn't political correctness; it's complete idiocy. But at least we're free of such stupidity in America.

Hahahahaha.

# posted by Paul Zummo : 9:44 AM
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