1. "This allows us to slow down enough to understand each other"
1.1. Truly Religion is like Race, it's different and multi-dimensional, but they both point to something greater than themselves. In this case it was the sun.
2. RELIGIOUS LITERACY
2.1. "A language to be learned that gives the ability to engage in public conversations about religion
3. Conservative
3.1. Confessionalists
3.1.1. Emphasis on Doctrine
4. Change of Cultural Values
4.1. You can't make sense of the world without religion is a lost thought.
5. Lack of Parental Support
5.1. This caused things like vocational education, athletics, and life skills to be placed on a higher level than knowledge, learning and readings of religious thought and values
5.1.1. Then as schools and colleges "learned to forget about religion" ... "the disseminating knowledge about religion fell on the churches" which was moving from solid doctrine to an emphasis on universal "ethics and experience"
5.1.1.1. 1960 Supreme Court Ban
6. Melting Pot of Multi-Cultural Values
6.1. More Models like the "Color in Faith" project are necessary. Making the goals:
6.1.1. Feasting on Faith DC-UCC Event will hopefully be a good model of this to support the understanding of the melting pot of multi-cultural values in our country
6.2. "Reclaim cities from narritive of terrorism"
6.3. "Introduce a language beyond race, tribe, or religion"
6.4. "Provide a gesture that would help restore conversation, empathy, and trust"
6.4.1. Hi Im ___________, a _th Generation, ___________,_____________,___________
7. SECULAR
7.1. Media that is more shock oriented and less truth and story oriented.
7.1.1. Separate from Religion
7.2. Profane
7.2.1. Areligious
7.2.2. Worldly
7.3. Leave education to School, the Pulpit, and everywhere else other than home.
7.4. SUPREME COURT BANS prayer and devotional readings in public school in 1960
8. "The Great Wave of Secularism"
8.1. DIVORCE BETWEEN PIETY AND LEARNING when Religious Ignorance became a sign of genuine piety.
8.2. Non-denominational Vaugeness and Denominational Specificity
8.3. Sola Scripture to Sola Jesus
8.3.1. Liberals--Jesus; Evangelicals--Doctrine
8.3.1.1. Jesus as a moral exemplar and Jesus as a Bosom Friend
8.4. Doctine to Story Telling
8.5. Theology to Morality
9. Tangible Ways to Build Religious Literacy
9.1. Comparative Perspectives
9.1.1. Symbols and their Meanings
9.2. Critical Engagement
9.2.1. Public and Open Discussions
9.3. Testing Religious Knowledge
9.3.1. Being Aware of Religious Holidays
9.4. Empathetic Understanding
9.4.1. Going to A Religious Service
9.5. "Wrestling with the ways in which that religion is fundamentally different from your own"
10. Experientialists
10.1. Emphasis on Experience
11. Liberal
11.1. Emphasis on Morlity
12. Lacks and Lost sense of Importance
12.1. Movement from outside of the home has caused a plethora of Issues
12.2. Plethora of Religious Options
12.2.1. Spiritualism, Adventism, Mormonism
12.2.1.1. "Ironically, the United States because ea nation of forgetters at the same time it became a nation of evangelicals." pg 113
13. Domestic Terrorism (Brainwashing)
13.1. Slaves were taught with the intention of conversion which was found to be impossible because "the religion slaves were being asked to adopt bore almost no resemblance to West African religious traditions"
13.1.1. When freedom came African Americans religious literacy grew becuase of a connection with the exodus story
13.2. Catholic Vs. Protestant: Both sects of Christianity were so focused on competing for followers and members that they lost sight of their originial purpose
13.2.1. TO TEACH PEOPLE ABOUT JESUS and THE MORAL AND MEMORABLE VALUES OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH
14. Censored Text Books
14.1. Religion remains a classroom pariah
14.2. The New England Primer, Webster's Speller, McGuffey's Reader, and Richard Gilmore's Catholic Reader were examples of the connection because school and religious teachings
15. SACRED
15.1. Media that is more truth and story oriented and less shock oriented.
15.1.1. Easy access to interfaith educational information.
15.2. Holy
15.2.1. Religous
15.3. Emphasis on Faith in School
15.4. "It was normal for the average student to have a fundamental understanding of "the Books of the Bible in order, the Lord's Prayer, the Twenty-Third Psalm, the Ten Commandments, and he would have heard about Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, David and Goliath, Joseph and Mary, Peter and Paul, the birth, death, and resurrection of Jesus, the Exodus story,.." pg. 110
15.4.1. God was known in spirit as well as in truth, "in sudden conversions, in ecstatic worship, in call-and-response preaching, and in shouting and song"