Comments | pinksparklystar: I'm lazy - please help me do my homework!

pinksparklystar

I'm lazy - please help me do my homework!

Jan 09, 2006 19:48

i'm doing a debatey presentationy thing for my german oral, and the topic is "is religion relevant to the youth of today?" i am taking the 'no' point of view, and was wondering if anyone could help me by giving me any useful arguments/opinions on the matter? (please :)!) just so you know, helping me won't be cheating as i'll need to translate ( Read more... )

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scarlett_lee January 9 2006, 20:43:28 UTC

Don't know if it would help at all but there is a programme on channel 4 now about how religion is the root of all evil. I suppose the guy will have to get opinions to the contrary so may give you some ideas. Or maybe just distract you by making you watch TV when you're trying to work. Oh dear.

Good luck!

xxxxxx

religion... cagedbat January 10 2006, 02:39:13 UTC

damn it, and I hid when the jehovas witnesses were at the door yesturday morning too!
Sorry sweetie.
My personal view, corporate religion is a product of the middle ages onto around the 1900's an obsolete monolith outmoded and dated..spanish inquisition..torture under the banner of "god"? power,fear and oppression..

However study of the morality in the bible etc. seems to provide people with a reasonable structure on acceptable behaviour in the world, but i think the you're going to hell fears from years past are largely gone, cold wars, or the Playstation packing up are far more sinister to kids these days I'd wager....maybe you should talk to hazel about it, she does theology...

Snookie

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themikado January 10 2006, 12:07:34 UTC

Different people will tell you different things.

There was a rather good article in the Guardian the other day about Western secularism and how organised Christian belief is declining in Europe, but there is a rise in US-style 'personal saviour' evangelical Christianity. People also believe stuff about astrology and New Age stuff more than they used to.

In terms of Islam, it's very relevant to a lot of young people who have been brought up in the faith, and the kind of fundamentalism which inspired the July 7 bombings often targets disaffected youths.

Most of the people I work with aren't religious, but then they're all neuroscientists in their mid-20s so they don't really count as 'young people'. :D

lost_in_moose January 10 2006, 20:24:30 UTC

Um, i dont think it's ever irrelevant totally, and i say this as a complete atheist, you just can't really avoid it. it's still taught in a lot of schools (assemblies etc), children are still raised as being of a particular religion (Islam, Judaism um... i dont but others too)...

perhaps you could say that Christianity is almost irrelevant to the youth of today :D

No i guess that wouldn't entirely fair, a couple of friends of mine are raising their spawn (18 months and counting) as i think Church of England, at least because they feel that even if he decided it's a load of crap later on in life then it could / should (/ they hope) give him a good moral grounding ( ... )

x_louise_x January 10 2006, 23:41:32 UTC

If you apply that question to the entire world, there's a hell of a lot to say on the matter! Most of the comments that come to my mind to answer that question are huge generalisations. If you're talking country-to-country, I think religion is mostly relevant in some, and mostly not-relevant in others. Like, in the UK I'd go for the second of those, but for the USA and Israel I'd quite ignorantly go for the first (mostly based on impressions I get from the media ( ... )