Former Osage Principal Chief Jim Gray and his wife Olivia Gray (Osage) recently took to Facebook to condemn their daughter’s world history assignment inquiring about the world’s beginning.

On the assignment sheet, students were asked to answer the overall research question about how the world began. Students were also asked to ponder the following questions:

  • How did the world start?
  • Who started it?
  • When did evil start or did it always exist?
  • Are people inherently good or evil or neither?
  • What is morality?
  • What is religion?
  • What is Christianity?
  • What does it mean to be a Christian?
  • Is God real?
  • Is Satan real?

“I don’t care what anyone says,” Gray said. “If you start out with, ‘How was the world started and then who started it,’ that implies it wasn’t science [and] that it was an entity, a person, a being.”

  • JayTreeman
    25•3 months ago

    I hate that idea. Respect every person, not necessarily their beliefs

    • EleventhHourEnglish
      20•3 months ago

      Hear hear. I may respect one’s right to their beliefs, as that’s also my right, but an individual’s beliefs can be dog shit. I have no obligation to respect that.

      • @[email protected]English
        14•3 months ago

        the problem is that the belief has become such an integral part of identity, that anything anyone says about the belief is taken as a statement about the person i.e., “an attack on my beliefs is an attack on ME personally”

        and way too many fucking people just go along with that attitude, like that’s just a fine way to live life, instead of kindergarten-tier fallacious

    • @[email protected]English
      3•3 months ago

      Respect every person, not necessarily their beliefs

      And just while their actions still warrant respect, and no further.