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Uhh...... it seems I am now in Science Research Challenge Executive Committee. Had a short meet up with Liu Yang last week. I naturally asked how he found out about me, since I really haven’t met him before. Apparently my name gets around.
Anyway, today I got an email saying Daniel Lim and Nicholas Ngiam are in too :)
Looking forward to the first meeting :D In the meantime, ideas for next year’s LIfe Sciences Symposium are welcome :)
Art lesson was fun today. We were kinda messing around in the art room while waiting for our canvasses to dry. Messing around meaning disturbing Adi. Heheh.
This morning and yesterday’s was the school’s religious emphasis week.
I was distraught.
As you might know, I am atheistic, specifically anti-theistic. That means I explicitly believe that no god exists. I was profoundly upset that we were not given the option to not attend religious emphasis week. I was profoundly upset that they were more or less trying to convert us to Christians. Try to imagine how unnerving that is.
I was also profoundly upset with the terribly polarized and one-sided perspective that was presented during the speech. The speech consisted of sharply criticizing the book entitled “The God Delusion”, what might be considered a book of the atheistic arguments and reasoning. What happened to respecting the beliefs of others in the name of preserving the religious harmony in Singapore?
What I am presenting here is not about the arguments for an against the existence of a god. That is immaterial. What I am presenting here is the way that the pastor has treated other religions and beliefs. That is with absolute scorn, disrespect and contempt.
It is all well and good to believe in what one wants to believe in. It is not all well and good to go about deriding the beliefs of others. It is this total disregard for the opinions of others, this ardent self-righteousness, that has brought upon the world many issues of great concern.
For such blithe disregard of other beliefs and philosophy to happen here, in a good school, in Singapore, leaves me gravely disturbed.
3 comments:
It's much worse when you have to put up with these views every single week.. Yet another week of trying to convert us to Christianity.
I do agree with you, we should have been excused from religious emphasis weeks and Chapels every morning. Even St. Andrew's respects the multi-racialism.
Schools will never be secular.
this is ultimately still at its roots a mission school, (never mind the senior management there..) of course it's not secular! haha.
I'm not really upset with the fact that the place is non-secular. I mean its okay with me if they want us to listen to their religion's point of view. But its not okay for them to make derisive remarks about other religions and beliefs, that's what I'm really upset about.....
:(
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