Ethics And Religious Culture : Loyola High School

Religion is one of the most controversial issues in society today. The concern of allowing prayer in schools is an on-going debate and has resulted in numerous lawsuits. Religious school clubs, after school activities, curriculums, and moments of silence during school are just a few of the court cases that judges have administered. People in favor of prayer in schools believe that their children can only learn certain values through religious practice. On the other hand, an individual against religious practice in schools views this issue as an infringement on his or her children’s rights as Americans.

Many public schools offer religion the Bible as literature or the role of religion in the world. Public school's approach to religion must have a legitimate educational purpose school should not be in the business of preaching to students or trying to persuade them to adopt certain religious beliefs. School officials are responsible for overseeing a young person's religious upbringing the court's ruling suggested simply that a student's family, not government, is responsible for decisions about religious instruction and

Since Catholic Faith Based schools are such an important part of the Catholic Church, they will need to be around in the future and that task may be one that is exceptionally difficult to achieve. If we do not continue to offer our Faith based education in schools, how will we be able to continue carrying out our mission? There are many challenges that the Catholic schools face and within each challenging area, there are other numerous obstacles to address. Three of the larger challenges facing American Catholic schools are increasing finances, common feelings toward faith, and changing

Since the early 20th century many lawsuits have been brought forth challenging mandatory prayer and bible readings in schools, arguing that students should not be forced to practice any religion other than their own. Since then, the Supreme Court has ruled repeatedly that, “prayer in schools, Bible readings, and other such religious practices are violations of the First Amendment (Find Law)”. The decisions of the Supreme Court stand as huge “milestones between federalism and states ' rights (Find Law)”.

he question of religious involvement in public education has been a controversial topic since before America was a country. Thomas Paine, one of our founding fathers, expressed, “As to religion, I hold it to be the indispensable duty of the government to protect all conscientious protesters thereof, and I know of no other business government has to do therewith,” (“20 Quotes”). While the separation of church and state was a necessity made clear by Thomas Jefferson in the first amendment of the Constitution, the question differentiating freedom of religion and freedom from religion remains intangible. The public university of Arkansas State confronted this debate in September of 2014 after the death of two of its esteemed football team associates.

I believe Lewis University requires their students to take a theology class to help us better understand Christianity from a different point of view. They want us to explore things about religion that are beyond the norm. For example, we wouldn’t examine Gods existence in church, but in a theology class we will. The majority of students in the country attend public schools. In public schools we do not learn about a specific religion. Public schools are to diverse and there is a fine line on how much a school allows its teachers to teach. Lewis, being a Catholic and Lithuanian school has the ability to require students to take a theology class. They have the power to do so because when students enroll with Lewis they are aware that it is a

Certain liberties have existed within our law that provide all Canadians with basic rights of culture, including the protection of religious expression. However, these religious freedoms begin to diminish when the notion of a European-centred religious atmosphere begins to develop, protecting the classic set of Christian beliefs which enact that there is no specific place where a Christian must practice faith and it is wherever they may go. (Reid, 2015) This becomes problematic when contrasting it with the many different forms of indigenous faith that were present in Canada upon the birth of residential schools, most of which show specific ties to the land which therefore go unprotected within Canadian law as shipping somebody off to a residential school does not account for many aspects of their religion. As Reid further states, “a principal difference between indigenous religion and traditions like mainstream Christianity is the fact that indigenous religion is specific [to] its location: its modes and styles cannot be detached from the modes and styles of a community’s life in a particular place.” (Reid, 2015) Therefore, we can clearly see a great deal of bias within the Canadian laws definition of what religious freedom entails, and how this definition proves to be one-sided to the European colonizers. The church also issued many

“Freedom of religion includes both the right to manifest beliefs and practices and the right to be free from state coercion or constraint in matters of religion ().” One of the most controversial places in which freedom of religion manifests itself is the public school. In order to protect freedom of religion, it is important to make sense of how a school must treat religion so the school does not compromise its role within society. This paper will establish current rulings on religion in public school and then explore what a religious accommodation is, why it may be necessary, and finally how it will take shape within the public school system by using a multitude of examples. This paper argues that religious accommodations for students in public schools are necessary to ensure freedom of religion. However, in order to guarantee that religious accommodation is enforceable and discernable, it argues for a two-pronged evaluation of each scenario in order to determine the viability of the proposed religious accommodation. Firstly, the accommodation must not infringe on the education of the other students not included in the accommodation by taking away their rights and the accommodation must not exempt a student from the education provided by the school. By applying this two-way evaluation system to given examples it will be concluded that religious freedom must absolutely be protected by way of certain religious accommodations provided that the school is

Summary: One of the most debated issues in education today is how public funding ought to be allocated between different types of schools. This article specifically focused on private schools affiliated with the Catholic faith. Diane Ravitch begins the article by stating her strong admiration for Catholic schools because of their foundation in ethics that come from faith. She then expresses her admiration for public schools as well that “enroll nearly 90% of our children.” She additionally praises public schools because of their commitment to teach academics, roles of citizenship, and the ability to interact with those different than oneself. She then offers an overt opinion of how she thinks of the two should be related- they shouldn’t. She says that if anyone desires religion mixed with education then they should pay out of pocket for it and that funding ought to come from philanthropists. She finished the article on an off-topic idea about charter schools attempting to compete with Catholic schools, but Ravitch

Perry Glanzer also touches on the idea that religions should be equally represented in education in his article “Religion in Public Schools.” He gives examples of various cases throughout the United States in which students were singled out by educators after their attempt in religious expression in order to maintain censorship, which could be prevented by education and the equal sharing of knowledge of various religions to make students more comfortable with various personal religious expressions. “Fortunately,” Glanzer says, “the basic principle of fairness toward religious and nonreligious perspectives is beginning to be reinforced through legislation and Supreme Court jurisprudence. It is currently embodied in the Equal Access Act, which

This paper is a review of the book, Reviving Evangelical Ethics: The Promises and Pitfalls of Classic Models of Morality by Wyndy Corbin Reuschling. This book addresses the misconceptions of Christian ethics and why it needs to be revived. Reuschling writes as a Christian social ethicist who understand the language, the communities, the commitments, and the moral and spiritual practices valued in evangelicalism.

There are “more than 2,000 complaints a year by members of the public concerned about violations of the separation between church and state”, with many of the violations occurring within educational systems in the United States (Gaylor, 2014). This is an ongoing issue because many Americans honor the separation principle, while a small portion of the population does not. Religious references and moral values are an important aspect of a child’s life, but should not be taught in public schools. Annie Gaylor published a well written article called “The Dangers of Religious Instruction in Public Schools”, which describes what happens when religion is brought into the picture. In earlier times, it was proved that religion creates tension, inconsistency,

Chapter 11 is about ethics in negotiation. Ethics are part of who we are and the higher our ethics are the higher we price tag is when it comes to defending them. Even though ethics are not enforceable by law there a minimum standard that is to obey the law, everyone has to obey the law that is involved with the negotiation process. Fraud is one those law that should not be crossed and within fraud there are six elements; knowing that you are committing fraud, misrepresentation, material, fact, reliance, and causation and demands. When it comes to ethics there are three ways that you can look at them, the school calls them; poker school, idealist school and pragmatist school. The Poker school see negations as a game, which contains certain

In addition, Lauren Southern states that instead of shielding students from religious matters, schools need “more education instead of [denying students] the opportunity to understand these texts”, implying that restricting a student’s exposure to religious texts poses future obstacles, including how to cope with sexuality issues, rather than improvement (Southern, RT). Furthermore, both Lauren Southern and Kammer Kinnarath express that as limitations of religious text the curriculum increase, ignorance arises alongside. Canada’s future society depends on the decisions of adolescents. To ensure an equitable society, schools must grant objective teachings of religion to prevent ignorance regarding sexuality, and gender. However, the restrictions of religious texts put Canada’s future at risk; they disregard the Bible’s integrity, violate the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and overlook the main goal of education

To answer this question, we must first understand what both ethics and morality are. As ethics is defined as the philosophical study of morality, those who study religion get their moral precepts from what they believe God says should be done. This perspective is not at all unexpected, because all religions apply a perspective on morality. Morality is defined as beliefs concerning right and wrong, good and bad- beliefs that can include judgements, values, rules, principles, and theories. Morals are what help us guide our actions, define our values, and give us reason for being the person that we are.