Should religion be banned from the schools? Why are some christians mean to atheists?

Question

I think it should. Why should atheists have to listen to what christians have to say?

Answer 1

I think a comparative religion coarse is good to have. I am an atheist and enjoyed that class very much in high school. I mainly enjoyed making the Christians in it look stupid, but I also enjoy anthropology and history, which this class delt with.

Answer 2

Religion should not completely banned from schools. I don't think any story about god is true, but religion plays a big roll in the world. But there are many religions, and I think in every school should be taught about all most important religions. if you restrict religious education to only 1 religion, and it's also the religion that the kids are told that it's the only true one, then it becomes indoctrination. This is a potentially dangerous thing for any society.
Some Christians become angry at atheists because some of them can only re-phrase the bible, and that's not enough in a discussion situation with someone who is used to think for himself.

Answer 3

No religion should not be banned from schools and I mean all religions, just not Christianity. And some christians are mean to atheists, like some atheists are mean to christians. People are people no matter what religion(or lack there of).

Answer 4

I don't know if religion should be actively practised by schools because forcing your ideas on someone usually only makes them resentful, but there should be nothing wrong with discussing or following ones beliefs at school.

Christians are sometimes mean to atheists because atheists are sometimes mean to Christians. That doesn't make it okay, but that is probably why. (In fact, we as Christians should be treating atheists with love and respect, but we are after all, only human.) Some atheists treat Christians like stupid, backwards and uneducated fools. It's easy to get defencive when people treat you this way and obviously it all just escalates the bad feelings.

Answer 5

Religion HAS been banned in most public schools. It has been replaced with a new religion called secular humanism, which permits the killing of human beings after conception and before birth.

Margaret Sanger's Planned Parenthood philosophy, which originated in Nazi Germany, is taught in schools having a no religion policy.

I am not mean to atheists, but I find them hypocritical when they claim to be open minded. They regurgitate things on naturalism and relativism that they read from some atheist guru. Most of them are just angry at their fathers.

Answer 6

They never did teach religion in school.They would teach culture.What they should do is stop teaching sublime comunism.Standing up every morning and saying that stupid sh*t.You know."I pledge a legiance to the flag of blah blah blah".I thought this was america.The land of the free.You have the freedom of speech but you also have the rights to the fifth amendmant.You don't have to say anything.And not pledging in the morning is not punishable by incarceration.But for some odd reason, you have to speak that bullsh*t.And when you get out of high school, you will look back at that and just be like, "isn't that like communism".And is america an imperialistic nation?So what is all this democracy thing about?OH YEAH.Money.A man made GOD that has a lot of power.The all mighty dollar.Just an opinion.BYE LOVE!

Answer 7

The main reason why religion should not be in public schools is because one of the founding tenets of this government is a separation of church and state. In order to maintain this ideal and to avoid disenfranchising any religion that is not dominant, religion must be kept out of government funded and sponsored institutions, like school.

While some argue some ideas, like evolution, should not be taught in schools or the religious ideas should be taught with them, it is important to realize that schools must present students with SCIENTIFIC facts. Evolution is covered in school because there are scientific facts that support it. Just because evolution goes against the religious ideas of creation does not make the idea void. It is presented as the theory it is because it is simply a part of science. It should be noted, simply, that evolution is not the only theory of our development that is widely supported by the populace. It is very difficult for people to see the difference in the two, but we have an obligation to present scientific theories (another example: gravity) and an obligation to keep religious theories out of public school.

Answer 8

Schools shouldn't be allowed to organize religious functions or lead prayer. But I don't think we should ban students from praying silently or during time between classes....that would conflict with freedom of speech. Also, it's not just a Christian vs atheist thing...there are people of many worldviews in schools so not one religion could every apply to all of them. What is very troubling about how Christians tend to complain about prayer being taken out of the classroom, like it somehow takes away the child's ability to practice religious freedom, yet forget that not everyone in that classroom will be of the same belief. If schools had organized prayer 5 times a day directed at Allah, then they'd complain about prayer being in the classroom. It's time that Christians who are threatened by schools enforcing religious freedom think about how they'd feel if the prayers didn't conform to their own religion.

Proponents of school lead prayer often say that those who don't believe in the prayer can just sit down and not participate. I wonder if they forgot what it was like to be a child. Kids tend to pick on those who are different, asking kids of other religions to sit out of prayer is singling them out to be bullied. For those who support organized prayer in school, think about this: How would you feel if you were raised as a Muslim, Buddhist, atheist etc and asked to participate in something that didn't fit with your beliefs? Not too happy about it. This country was started by people who moved to get away from religious persecution and gain religious freedom...let's not make this country into the same thing the pilgrims sought to leave.

Freedom of religion means freedom for everyone...not just those in the majority.

Answer 9

Public schools (taxpayer funded) should not endorse any one religion over another, but they should not prohibit anyone (students or teachers) from participating in their own religious beliefs (within reason..I'm not in favor of letting Johnny out of Math because he needs a prayer break).

Some Christians are intolerant of others' beliefs, just like many athiests are intolerant of ANYONE's beliefs (which is why some athiests--like a lot of the ones on Yahoo! Answers--are mean to Christians.)

Answer 10

Personally I think religion should be in schools and it should be taught in a historical context. However it should include all major religions and the religions/myths that proceeded them.

It is very difficult to understand history without the influence of religious institutions.

It is imposible to understand the Renaissance and the age of enlightenment without a religous context.

It is impossible to understand the history of the middle east without it's changing religions.

It is impossible to understand the history of India without it's changing religions.

Asian history religion isn't that important for its history but very important to understand social customs.

Comparative Religion and History of religion would be very usefull in schools. Sad thing is this is America and most history taught in pre-college school starts in 1492. Someone actually asked here the other day which came first Catholicism of Protestantism.