Would you want an Atheist teaching your children?

Answer 1

No, because he/she may not be tolerant of my child's beliefs, because atheist are always ready attack Chistian values and I would not want my children to feel like they have to conform to this teachers beliefs, just as I would not like a Christian teacher to make my children feel that their faith is wrong.

Answer 2

Sure, why not? What difference would it make unless an Atheistic person where teaching Sunday school or a theistic sort of course.....

I would NOT want ANYONE who tried to impose his belief system on my child, no matter the nature of his beliefs. I don't care if he is a Buddhist, Atheist, Agnostic, Christian, Muslim, or whatever as long as he/she isn't injecting lessons with his privately held spin on any kind of god topics.

I believe each person's relationship with God is his own. What a parent teaches a child is what matters most. Teaching isn't only done in classrooms. Kids watch and learn from EVERYTHING their parents do and don't do, say or don't say.

That way, when it's time for a child to make his own choices, he has tools and examples to help him decide what is right.

Answer 3

danjmnyc said that some atheists are very moral and intelligent people. Funny that she mentions no source for the moral or the intelligent. Apparently morality and intelligence just "evolved."

No, I would not want and atheist, aka, a person who denies God exists to justify immoral behavior, teaching my children.

Think about this. If you were to travel the known universe and all planes of existence searching for God, would you find him? You'd have to do it all at once cause He could be moving around.

Atheists can no more prove that there IS NOT a God than I can prove that their is one.

Frankly atheism is a choice just as choosing to believe God exists is. But oh how certain atheists are that God doesn't exist and therefore suddenly they have given themselves a free ticket on the sinway express because in effect they've destroyed the definer of morality.

Answer 4

I would have no problem with an atheist teaching my children any subject, including religion. The issue is not the teacher's religion -- it is the teacher's competence. Is it better to have an incompetent Christian teacher than a competent atheist teacher? If you answer that question "Yes," you need to have a talk with your god.

Answer 5

Religion should not and does not make a difference in public school. Atheist are not bad or immoral people. I feel that it is very hard to believe in a god that no one has proof of, except a old out dated book of mythology. God to me is an imaginary friend for adults. I am still have morals and do believe in consequences for my actions.

Answer 6

i wouldnt mind as long as he didnt share hes religious views with the children he teaches. especially when kids are at a tender age of like 5-12 they believe everything( well most things) that people say to them and can easily be lead.... i wouldnt have a prob... but he had to have rules too.

Answer 7

Yes. Atheist and, well, non-atheist, what is the difference? There are good and bad in all of us. If the teacher is kind and knows the stuff, I want that teacher for my kids.

Answer 8

Religion would not matter in education. As long as the teachers beliefs (or non-beliefs) were not shared with the children. As a matter of fact, as a parent, I would be surprised to actually know what my kids religion was.

Answer 9

I can't imagine that it would make the slightest difference. Public school is about educating children; not teaching religious indoctrination. If one is uncomfortable about that, there is an alternative choice of enrolling their children in 'Christian academies'.

Answer 10

Yes, I would. The Atheists I know are very moral and intelligent people. Also, that way I'd know for sure they weren't trying to slip in any religious dogma into my child's education.