Why is the religion of scientology allowed to be taught in public schools?

Question

If the US requires there to be a "separation of church and state" and scientology is now a religion, why is the beliefs associated with it allowed to be taught in public schools, but beliefs of other religions is not allowed to be mentioned whatsoever in public school? Is this not favoring one religion over another, thus, in a sense, forcing a religion on a person indirectly?

Answer 1

There are Scientology schools, where most kids who were born into it go, but I have never heard of it being taught in public school. You wouldn't attend these schools unless you were a Scientologist though, thankfully. Scientology has kind of seeped into many aspects of society by way of a number of front groups that do various things for the community, like Narconon and the like. These groups do not advertise that they are really Scientologists, so it is very possible that if you heard that Scientology was being taught in ____ school, it's definitely run by Scientologists.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

I haven't heard about this. Where is that being taught? Last I heard Scientology is a secretive religion. I do not think any religion should be taught in schools but children should be allowed to pray and recite the Pledge.

Answer 4

Not happening anywhere I know of. Schools can teach comparitive religions - that's the general beliefs and history of world religions without emphasizing a particular one - but they can't teach a religious class without running fowl of all kinds of interest groups - ACLU and others. So I think you are mistaken.

Note on Scientology - this is a pay-per-lesson religion, and would not be taught for free anywhere. To learn about thetans (the aliens Scientologists think inhabit our bodies) you have to pay a lot of money, and buy a machine that 'audits' you (tells you how many thetans you have). All this mumbo-jumbo is covered by copyrights that are strictly enforced.

Answer 5

I have not heard of Scientology being specifically taught at schools. Where do you live.

Answer 6

You'd have to give an example of scientology taught in schools...

Answer 7

I think you're confusing "science" with "scientology" -- the two have nothing to do with each other. Science is not a religion, and scientology is not science. As far as I know, no public schools are teaching scientology.

Answer 8

As far as I know, Scientology, as a discipline, is NOT allowed to
be taught. There are, of course, some concepts that are
actually founded in science and those can be taught ... but as
a discipline, no.

Answer 9

Scientology is a (bogus) religion.
Science isn't a religion. Get them straight.

Answer 10

could you possibly cite a specific case of this happening?

I'm thinking you are misunderstanding something.