Sacred Studies would be a useful course if bias could be kept out of it.
That is where a strong mandatory NATIONAL curiculum comes in.
Has anyone ever heard of a Catholic High School that gives equal time to Protestant Beliefs?
I don't know of a Catholic high schools specific courses but I do know that in my Protestant High School the Orthodox and Roman Catholic positions were certainly covered and discussed in depth.
Was your Sacred Studies class a fair and balanced view on the differences between the major faiths?
I have no idea how to answer that. I can tell you that the teacher, Father Cantler never made any claims that one path was better than the other. You also need to understand that it was an ongoing course that lasted through every year, and that religion also came in during many other subjects, math, history, science, art, language. In those areas religions were considered as political forces and the effects examined not as belief systems but as either enablers or hinderances to advancement and knowledge.
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