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Easy, gather the tenants off all the other faiths and put them up.
That’s actually a great idea. Have the children make them as a school assignment. Judaism is basically the same. That would be a fantastic start to accepting other people.
What disturbs me a bit is that we’re in an atheism community and 99% of the answers hinge around ‘put up more religion’. Sure, if one then treat them all the same. But then also treat us the same. We don’t believe that any of that has a room in a science class room. Where is the respect for our believe?
Hang them up. Then once explain to your students why none of this belongs in a science class room. Ask who would like to have the honors of tearing them down at the end of the class as a proactive lesson on science. Explain to them why this will be a daily ritual now.
This way they’re on display every day, so you are strictly speaking compliant. But it makes it very clear that this has no place here. Your students will become more comfortable with the idea of resisting religious BS. Until the day you are fired for it. Then they learn that freedom has a price.
atheism isn’t a belief system though. it’s the absence of belief. if the teachers are forced to do stuff based on belief, the only malicious compliance that works within the rules is to treat all belief systems equally. science is also not a belief system.
I disagree.
Agnosticism is the absence of belief.
Atheism is believing that there is no God.
Theism is the belief in a god or gods.
Atheism is the lack of that belief. You can be an atheist and simply lack belief, or you can affirmatively claim that no gods exist.
Many atheists are somewhat in the middle: for example, there are certain god claims that are so patently ridiculous (e.g. Xenu) that I do claim that they don’t exist, whereas there are others that are probably unfalsifiable (e.g. a deistic god) and so I don’t think it’s possible to make a legitimate claim that they don’t exist.
Agnosticism deals with knowledge, not belief. It’s right there in the word: “gnostos” is the Greek word for knowledge.
Go through them as a class.
Explain what adultery and coveting mean.
Get angry letters from parents.
Reply “you voted for this so now I have to teach it.”
“Adultery is when you have sex with someone you are not married to.” *(Bible’s definition)
8yr old: “What is sex?”
Teacher: “Ask your parents.”
Other 8 year old: “Is that what dad does with the babysitter?”
Teacher: “Ask your mom.”
8yr old: “What is sex?”
Teacher: “Ask your parents.”
LOL, no.
This is science class we’re talking about. Teach it. In full detail.
