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Originally posted by alwilliams767:
Ideally, I think that religion should be taught about in schools. I think that schools should acknowledge that many individuals have religious beliefs and that all these beliefs should be tolerated and that the individuals in question should be accepted as fellow members of society and the human race. I think it would be perfectly acceptable for teachers to tell their students that they have religious beliefs as long as they made no effort to push these beliefs upon their students (now go and try to implement THAT one with a law!).
I think that the misguided efforts of any form of government, including the schools, to brand any one of the formalized religions as superior to all others is a grave mistake. Religion is a personal decision that should be encouraged in the home, and not in public.
All this calls for a degree of self-control simply not found in the present evolutionary progress of humanity at this time. Therefore I say that religion should NOT be taught in school.
Al, aspiring martyrs generally don't make good neighbors. Religion itself doesn't scare me, I see it for what it actually is.
I'm much more concerned about its followers....
Regards