Newspaper Article Reading Response

source: https://www.stcatharinesstandard.ca/opinion/columnists/2013/02/10/it-s-like-saying-bald-is-a-hair-colour.html

This article, “It’s Like Saying Bald Is A Hair Color,” is from the St. Catharines Standard Newspaper. Here is the article: https://www.stcatharinesstandard.ca/opinion/columnists/2013/02/10/it-s-like-saying-bald-is-a-hair-colour.html

Read the article and answer the following questions:

1. What did you like, dislike, and find interesting

2. Can you relate something you read to your own life?

3. Is a newspaper article a good form of writing to share these ideas?

4. Is atheism just another religion? Why or why not?

5. Should people be allowed to hand out bibles to school children? What about to their own children?

6. Should there be atheist texts in school.

7. Do you agree with the author that: “But our public schools are not there to create a captive audience for evangelists. That also means it’s not a soapbox for atheists to tell kids religion is ridiculous. There are better and more appropriate venues for both — at home, churches, bookstores, Youtube — but leave the schools out of it.”

8. Research Bonus Question: What does “putting your head in the sand” mean and does that description apply here to this author?

Secular Web Kids Crossword

Across
4.
Belief in living forever in a sky Disneyland
6.
The rules of thinking
8.
Believing/making predictions without evidence
10.
The dog with all the questions
11.
Thinking you can persuade god(s) to do stuff

Down

1 The love of wisdom

2 Searching for reasons/evidence

3 Magic and Monsters

5 Information on which to base belief

7 Believing someone/thing has successfully cast a magic spell

9 Not believing in the supernatural

Young Darth Harley Had Some Doubts

(*****************sing to the tune of Old MacDonald Had A Farm)

(Verse 1)

Young Darth Harley had some doubts

A-questioning he goes

And with those doubts he questioned commercials

A-questioning he goes

With a “does it work?” here

And a “will it make me happy?” there

Here a doubt, there a doubt

Everywhere an “Ad” doubt

Young Darth Harley had some doubts

A-questioning he goes

(Verse 2)

Young Darth Harley had some doubts

A-questioning he goes

And with those doubts he questioned gods

A-questioning he goes

With “never a Zeus” here

And “never a Thor” there

Here a doubt, there a doubt

Everywhere a “God” doubt

Young Darth Harley had some doubts

A-questioning he goes

CAN YOU WRITE THE NEXT VERSE IN THIS SONG?