International Humanist and Ethical Union The world union of Humanist organizations home about IHEU contact IHEU Navigation home about IHEU human rights conferences countries and regions humanist organisations news archive change text size events Login/Register Home Romania removes theory of evolution from school curriculum Submitted by admin on 18 August, 2008 - 06:34. Romania Development news Education news IHN 2008.3 August International Humanist News Education (chalkboard) Romania’s withdrawal of the theory of evolution from the school curriculum could be evidence of a growing conservative tendency in teaching. Evolution has been removed from the school curriculum in a move which, pressure groups argue, distorts children’s understanding of how the world came into being. Meanwhile, religious studies classes continue to tell Romanian children that God made the world in seven days. The theory of the Origin of Species and the evolution of humans is no longer present in the comp
“Inherent to a religion is that they need children. Children are open for ideas of people they trust. They trust without question. So they are the best targets for indoctrination of a religion.”
Police believe a toddler was starved to death by a religious cult because he refused to say “amen”. Members did not seek medical care when he stopped breathing, and the boy died in his mother’s arms.
Is it the religion or the person? Well, what happens when the person can see the errors in the religion, but refuses to give up that religion? Here’s a case where we get to find out that answer.
The recent death from untreated diabetes of an 11-year-old Wisconsin girl has invigorated opposition to obscure laws in many states that let parents rely on prayer, rather than medicine, to heal sick children. (more…)
Ms Mauerova, a member of the Grail Movement cult, is accused of partially skinning her caged son and feeding it to willing relatives raw.
The recent death from untreated diabetes of an 11-year-old Wisconsin girl has invigorated opposition to obscure laws in many states that let parents rely on prayer, rather than medicine, to heal sick children. 
