Middle School Teaching Units

Thankfully, fewer and fewer people see God as an angry tyrant as the Old Testament portrayed him. From the cavemen days to now, civilization has moved from a “there is no god” approach to today, wherein God is seen as a “non-material Spirit being. Using SCHOOL as a metaphor, civilization has been slowly moving from caveman kindergarten to today’s college, with a lot of post graduate work yet to be encountered. 

Caveman kindergartners were only interested in self survival. God? What God?

Cavemen had little or no abstract thinking. They existed by being able to avoid bigger cavemen or to kill smaller cavemen. The world was a violent place and living through the day was a dangerous adventure that kept one focused solely on the physical-material world.

Slowly, as communities began to develop and as a true family unit became more standard, thinking about “others” and the longevity of life together began to grow. With the development of homo sapiens and his brain, art was discovered, developed, and enhanced. Farming became the life-sustainer more so than hunting. Man started questioning how all of this “stuff” came into being and a God OUT THERE seemed to be the answer. Elementary school is thus in full bloom.

Some 3-4,000 years ago the gods (plural) that were Continue Reading