PUTIN SUPPORTS TEACHING SPIRITUAL AND MORAL CULTURE AT SCHOOLS
Pravoslavie.ru – 8/10/16
The head of the state spoke about this during his conversation with the winners of the all-Russian “Teacher of the Year” contest, reports TASS.
“Of course it’s useful. The only question is how it is going to be organized and implemented,” said the president, answering whether a general cultural course which would be taught to all children regardless of their nationality and religion was needed in schools.
“Beyond all doubt, there should be a balance between natural sciences, humanities, and cultural matters. I certainly agree, but it should be well thought-out and worked out in detail at the expert level,” he added.
Earlier the new Education Minister Olga Vasilyeva accepted the expansion of the “Fundamentals of Religious Cultures and Secular Ethics” school courses and the improvement of textbooks. In her interview with the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper she said that it is “a cultural course” and its task is “to strengthen the moral foundations of a person,” but “it is not intended for religious education.”
Yes. So it’s moral for Christians to bomb hospitals, children, and aid convoys? Putin is spiritually and morally depraved. And so is his church overlord Kirill the Patriarch of Moscow.
Indeed. But that doesn’t stop OCP from sourcing dubious articles from many dubious sources (Sputnik anyone?). Apparently this and other insignificant articles were deemed more newsworthy than the brekthrough in Orthodox-Cathlolic inter-Church dialogue when the Document on Synodality and Primacy was unanimously accepted. No mention whatsover. Maybe because it wasn’t anti-Catholic enough.