Lest we offend

Teachers drop the Holocaust to avoid offending Muslims

Schools are dropping the Holocaust from history lessons to avoid offending Muslim pupils, a Government backed study has revealed.

It found some teachers are reluctant to cover the atrocity for fear of upsetting students whose beliefs include Holocaust denial.

There is also resistance to tackling the 11th century Crusades - where Christians fought Muslim armies for control of Jerusalem - because lessons often contradict what is taught in local mosques.

The findings have prompted claims that some schools are using history 'as a vehicle for promoting political correctness'.

How I wish now that I had gotten out of math class by stating that it somehow offended me at a religious level, and thus intimidating my educators into dropping the course lest they offend me.

This story reminds me of how the Catholic church intimidated Galileo into silence. So both science and history are subject to revision by anyone willing to twist the words of their faith to promote the slaughter of nonbelievers, thus intimidating educators into compliance.

Even secular movements are in on the act, in this day and age when Big-bang and Evolution THEORIES are taught as fact and competing ideas are not permitted into the classroom. I cannot speak for other Christians but as for myself I think that the theories should be presented with proper acknowledgment to the fact that they are unprovable and in effect belief systems in and of themselves.

But the thing about the news story is that the holocaust is not an unprovable theory. There are photographs, eyewitness accounts, confessions from the killers and the buildings themselves which still stand. The leap of faith required to believe in it is not that great. Evolution and Big Bang theories ultimately are their own faith models, as there will always be gaps in the fossil records and no one will be able to explain how something came from nothing unless there was something that preceded it.

Romans 1:18-22
18The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness, 19since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. 20For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse.

21For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. 22Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools