Austrian Religious Education Act, requires Catholic-born children to be educated as Catholics. Do you agree?

Question

When parents divorce, should custody go only to the parent who remains Catholic and raises the children as Catholic?

Answer 1

No. Children should go to secular schools. Sunday school should be at the discretion of the parent. The state should favor not one religion over any other, and perhaps frown on religion itself if one of the parents is not religious.

In cases of divorce, the court should choose whoever the best parent is objectively, without preference to gender, religion, or any other discriminatory category.

Answer 2

I could understand if the kid is an orphan from two Catholic parents.

Then you should raise the kid in the manner that would most likely be in the parents wishes.

In the case you are speaking of where you have one Catholic parent and a non-Catholic in a divorce such a situation should be agreed upon between both parents in private or though the court system as is done in the United States.

to give preference for one religion over another regardless of the situation is dangerous at best.

Answer 3

I am so sorry for children around the world that what ever they are taught in youth, if the decide to learn the bible because they consider it the word of God, as I did, then you learn the meaning of being humble as a little child.
It takes ten years to clear the brain and it hurts every step of the way.
I was taught this, but the bible does not agree, so I must except what the bible says instead. I do except what the bible says. What I was taught is still being taught today.

John 8:32 says Jesus was giving them the truth. The truth is all I want and I do not want any thing careless involved with it.

That is like saying," Teach the bible in school." With so many religions, how could that be possible, all it can do is cause as much upset and trouble as the Act your speaking of.

Answer 4

The government takes our tax dollars and we should get the kind of education we want. Therefore, we should have choice, not force.

I could see parents wanting their kids educated in their religious traditions.

For big denominations, it would be easy to add some religious classes. But for small ones, it is not economically feasible.

But force? I can see parents forcing their kids to be educated as Christians, but not a government.

Answer 5

I don't agree how any religion raises their children brainwashed into believing what the parents believe. A child should be raised with a mind of his own to think for himself. Luckily I broke the mold my parents had set for me but too many live the rest of their lives as religious cattle.

Answer 6

Sounds like a blur of church and state to me. However, what a certain people enact into law is to be respected, as imperfect as our human legal system is. It's a moot point for me, anyway, I'm not Catholic, don't have any kids and live in the US.

Answer 7

The history of such a requirement smacks against the tenets of America. This is the core of the separation of church and state, not the nonsense that Americans think now, that the mere mention of God or the presence of a Bible is a criminal act.

Answer 8

The entire act takes away "free will"... That's seems to be what the bible is all about.. We are free to believe the bible or not, God doesn't force himself on anyone, nor should a religion.. God bless you..

Answer 9

Enacting a law that requires Catholic-born children to be educated as Catholics is as retarded as legislating that blond haired people must be feed coal to turn their hair dark.

Ridiculous...!
Dangerous...!
Hitlerian-Catholic Neo-Nazism...!

Stand up against church lead political issues. Make your stand for liberty.

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Answer 10

I think there should be a separation of church and state. Total and complete. Period, end of story.