[Debate] School vs Religion

[Kenotthib]

Okay so I was at work yesterday and one of the managers was talking to me and she asked me did I think religion was more important than school. I told her school was more important and she looked at me shocked. I was shocked myself. I didn't know people put religion over school and education. My question fellow NB members is: Which do you think is more important? School or Religion.

 

[~Naruto&Itachi~]

School easily....also did you mean that you think school is more important?

 

[Vayne]

School of religion & te religion of school.

 

[Kingu]

For religious people, religion is more important since it will benefit you in the afterlife. However school is an important factor when it comes to religion.

 

[Kenotthib]

School easily....also did you mean that you think school is more important?

I could see why you were confused so I fixed it. Yeah I felt school was more important.

 

[-immortal-]

School easily. Not that other nonsense.

 

[Lord Naruto San]

The more Knowledge you know the more you start too question Religion.

Religion helps keeps order if everyone tells you that if you be good you get to go a wonderland and if you do evil things you go to hell. You will do the right things it helps maintain order which we need.

 

[Wabbit]

Somewhere there is a poor kid longing to go to school,hoping to liberate from the misery. Somewhere there is an old person in a regret that he could not go to school and then you have plebs here who imply education something as optional.

 

[Cruciatus]

School is important for your earthly life, religion for your eternal life. A lot of religious people will tell you that what happens here on earth doesn't really matter, because you'll have all of eternity to get it right.

However, school is important for surviving here on earth. Without an education it's nearly impossible to get a job in today's society. High school drop out successes like Steve Jobs are a minority, not a majority. Money makes the world go round and in order to make money, your ass better get an education. Lol

There needs to be a balance, really. Religion is fine but if it's compromising your success and well being, then that's a little too obsessive.

 

[Pumpkin Ninja]

If one truly believes in a heaven or hell the obvious thing to do is to make sure they end up in heaven. Why would they care about school as much as they do religion then?

 

[Wabbit]

^Why dont they make their trip short by killing them selves then. Also less they live the less chance of sins committed by them. They have no reason to pursue individual goals here nor they seem to have any liking to learn things and a notion of making of world a better place for next gen. Why even waste time here?

 

[BlacLord™]

I went to a Catholic school lmao.

GCSE Religious Studies was compulsory, but it was easy anyway.

 

[Conspirator.]

School of course is more important to me.

 

[GhostProject]

Not a very practical question. We live in an age where you can have both school and religion.

 

[Xlad]

Not a very practical question. We live in an age where you can have both school and religion.

It's pretty much like this now.

 

[Aim64C]

Okay so I was at work yesterday and one of the managers was talking to me and she asked me did I think religion was more important than school. I told her school was more important and she looked at me shocked. I was shocked myself. I didn't know people put religion over school and education. My question fellow NB members is: Which do you think is more important? School or Religion.

Why are the two distinctly separate ideas?

Anyone worth listening to when it comes to religion/spirituality has done a fair amount of learning of one variety or another.

Honestly, though, with the garbage that is public schooling systems, these days, there isn't much of a point to school. Schools are supposed to reinforce learning and ensure that students understand the core fundamentals of 'the enlightenment' - Reading and Math being the two most important followed by Critical Thinking/Sciences (the concept of testing/evaluating). That has been completely abandoned in most public schools in favor of dogmatic preaching of 'facts' that must be correctly selected from incoherent nonsense in poorly worded standardized tests.

So, within the context of Western society, the question is: "Do you prefer a religion based on historical accounts or a religion based on political correctness?"

Ranting aside - I would actually argue that -faith- is more important than school.

School doesn't teach you how to carry on in the absence of loved ones. School doesn't teach you the virtues of staying true to one's own creed in the absence of policing. School doesn't teach you -why- you are learning in the first place.

All of that comes from faith. Everyone has faith, no matter how deep or shallow its focus. Developing that sense of faith and affixing it to solid concepts is important to being able to work through life's issues that no text book can hope to instruct you through. Not even the alleged cure-all of the Bible will work without an amount of faith that it can.

Knowledge is easy to come by in this day and age. Educated people with shallow convictions, who worship their own perspective, get you politicians. You don't want to be a politician. They are dried-out husks of human beings who have long since vacated their soul.

It is better to be of sound heart and firm footing than a glimmering mind atop shifting sands.

 

[The Dreamer]

Since when do you have to choose between these 2? =_=

 

[Hazo]

Both of them

 

[Bronze]

I regard both of them as equal factors in my life. School offers me the education and degree I need to eat bread in life and religion offers me the faith and spiritual understanding of the world. The former is important before death, and the latter is more important in the afterlife.

To very religious people, religion is more important to them. To atheists, school is more important.

 

[Frankenstein]

That's a retarded question really. It doesn't even make sense. Religion isn't something you go to. You don't even need to learn about it to have faith. And if you do, it takes 1-2 bloody hours compared to the years of education. Or you mean attending to the church and stuff? That would at least make sense as a question but it would be even more stupid.