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to God. One of the problems that
Israel had with God (or was it the
other way around) was that he
was using other, sometimes
pagan nations to do His will.
From an ethical point of view,
the Sunday School may not be
any different from say, the
secular humanist. The good
humanist loves his neighbour,
cares about the underprivileged,
upholds the rights of the in-
dividual, etc. etc. The Christian
does essentially the same, but
does so within a Christian frame
of reference, Although what is
done is the same, the Christian
acts because of a belief in God,
the secular humanist doesn't.
The value of the Sunday School
lies in its being a place of
assessment and celebration: a
place where a child can look at
experiences and feelings, at-
titudes and values in the light of
what we believe God has said and
is saying, In that experience the
child is affirmed: he gets to know
himself as a child of God.
Through that perspective he
influences society,
This doesn't mean that should
we drop the Sunday School, our
society would become "im-
moral." It might lose something
of the God dimension and that
would be unfortunate, but
society, if for no other reason
than its own survival would find a
way to seek justice,
will take only so much garbage.
Technology demands large
amounts of the earth's mineral
wealth. The U.S. for example
with 6 percent of the world's
population uses 40 percent of the
world's resources. Someone has
compared the earth to a space
ship with a given amount of
"rations." We have a respon-
sibility to plan for the longest
journey possible.
I'm reasonably optimistic that
we will control population. India,
a country with an aecnte shor-
tage of food for its number of
people has been advocating
family planning for some years
and with some success. Canada,
apparently one of the "more
backward" nations in advocating
birth control, nevertheless seems
to be moving toward smaller
families.
According to a survey last year
in the Toronto area, at the
present rate of decline, Canada
will reach the two children per
family average within a hundred
years.
Do you believe that religion
should be taught in the Public
School System?
This is the fourth in a series
of controversial questions asked
of district ministers.
Rev. Glen Wright of Exeter
United Church and Rev, J. T
Beaton, who is the minister of
the Zion-Centralia United
Church charge, are this week's
contributors. Mr. Beaton is also
presently attending A Ithouse
college of Education.
We are sorry to report that
Rev. R, H. Thynne, Emmanuel
Baptist Church, who had also
agreed to give his opinions, was
hospitalized last week.
in view of population explosion do
you feel families should be
limited to two children?
Mr, Beaton; I have not yet been
able to come to a conclusion as to
the exact number of children a
family should have, We have
two girls and a boy whom we love
very dearly, but, I hope that we
have no more. I believe in family
planning and I discuss it at length
with every couple that comes to
be married and send them to see
a doctor.
There are some situations
where I think a couple should be
denied the right of having
children, I don't know who will
play God but someone ought to at
times.
I will give one example but
many other situations can be
cited, When parents are before
proach then would become one of
examining the claims of a
'religion" from an historical and
ethical point of view,
In no sense, at least in terms of
Christianity, should one suggest
that what is being taught is the
Christian faith. Christianity can
be experienced only within the
church setting. What I am
suggesting is that schools can
teach content and teach it well.
For the church, subject content is
not primary: what is most im-
portant is exposing the child
through relationships to the love
of God.
I believe the religious
curriculum should go beyond
Christianity to include other
major world religions as well as
secular humanism, This would
enable the student to respect and
appreciate beliefs and cultures
that differ from his own — rather
important I suspect, if we are to
live in a world that has been
called a global village.
Do you think Sunday School still
has an important role to play in
our Society?
Mr. Wright:
Certainly the church or more
specifically, the Christian ethic
has and does influence society.
The Sunday School as a facet of
the churches understanding and
expression of God's good news is a
part of that influence.
The Sunday School or church,
however, has no exclusive rights
to the ten commandments or the
"golden rule" and certainly not
Mr. Beaton:
Sunday School still has a very
valid place in our society. It is not
fulfilling the same role as it did 50
years ago but is still very im-
portant in the life of a church,
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One problem of Sunday School
is the teachers. We use volun-
teers, mostly untrained, good-
intentioned people. Bless them.
But they are competing with
highly paid, skilled, well-trained
professionals in the school and on
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I believe the time has come
when we should have paid, highly
skilled religious educators as
teachers in Sunday School. But I
have not yet found a church that
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Mr. Beaton:
Yes, it is already happening.
The Separate School System in
Ontario is by legal definition a
public school supported out of
public coffers. The same
privilege is not given to all. This I
object to .
I do think that if religion is
going to be taught it should be
comparative religion with a
larger proportion of time spent on
Christianity as it is the basis of
our Western culture.
The problem arises when you
try to find a common deposit of
New Testament doctrine in the
Christian Church, To overcome
this present impossible task,
some of the government reports,
such as the McKay & Wright
report, talk about moral
teaching. This happens whether
you want it or not by what is
called hidden agenda' by precept
and example. What is the basis of
morality that should be taught?
In my present studies at
Althouse College of Education, I
have heard a professor tell a
class that they would be priests
and priestesses of the future ( I
wonder if they know the role that
will have to be fulfilled). This
refers to religion and not merely
morality, My deep feeling is that
teachers, educators and
educational professors are
confused as to what ought to
really happen. Much of this
confusion arises from the almost
total lack of training on a
professional theological basis.
My own children have had
some teachers who let religious
ideas and values come through in
teaching and were very creative
and valuable. The reverse has
also happened and I have had to
spend extra time to reteach
Christian doctrines that were
confused by naive and very
immature Christians,
To be valid, I also have to say
that there are some ministers I
never want my children to have
in Religious Education if it exists
or is to exist. I suppose that they
would have the same feeling
about my religious instruction.
This all goes to point up the
confusion and almost impossible
task of religious education but it
is not a valid reason to abdicate
the throne of responsibility. I
believe that religion should be
taught in all public schools but we
are in desperate need of
organization and order.
Rev. John Beaton
our Courts and are declared unfit
parents and the child has to be
taken from them to be protected,
these people I believe should be
sterilized.
It is difficult enough for
children to cope with modern life
and the pressure of school and
society when parents are loving,
but with parents who do not love
or even hate, beat up or try to kill,
it is very damaging and some of
the children never recover
emotionally.
Our Courts can do nothing to
save these children until there is
legal reason or proof of cruelty.
This is similar to blowing out
the match after the fire has been
started.
I think it would be better never
to light the match.
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Mr. Wright:
Religion has made too im-
portant a contribution to man's
development to be ignored. I
believe it should be a part of the
school curriculm.
The public school system,
however, is limited in what can
be taught, not only because of its
objective analytical approach,
but because it must respect the
variety of religious — or
humanistic approaches held by
students and teachers. The ap-
Mr. Wright: Cutting down on the
birth rate is not only desirable,
it's a necessity if the human race
is to survive more than a few
hundred years. Limiting families
to two children is good survival
policy.
It took the human race from its
beginning to 1850 to reach a
billion people. Now we are adding
a billion every 12 years. The total
world population is doubling
every 35 years, At that rate of
growth there will be one person
for every square yard of land
surface in a scant 600 years.
Granted, the earth will ac-
commodate more people than
there are now — but it won't
accommodate an infinite number,
Its space is limited.
Reaching a zero rate of growth
i.e., two children per family is
desirable for another reason: the
earth not only has limited space
but limited resources, There is
only so much copper and oil; the
atmosphere has only so much
oxygen: the water, air and soil
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Carolyn Kellett is a patient in
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