As Evolution is a Religion, is not also Trek a Religion?

Question

I demand Star Trek be taught in schools.

Answer 1

Hey! Atheism is just as much a religion as evolutionism and trekism...I want atheism taught in schools too.

Answer 2

There are a few things wrong with this question, but i will atempt to repair it. The repair will take at least 2 earth hours unless someone will help me, then it will take longer.
You seem to imply that any thing that a person could believe should be called a religion, but I do not think that most people use the word "religion" in that way. People refer to religion specifically when discussing gods, morality, claims of an afterlife, prophesies and customs without another basis in reality. Religion IS a system of belief and people do believe that evolution happens, but the comparison ends there. Evolution does not imply prophets or prophesy, gods or demons, morality or lack thereof, nor does it make any claims about a non-physical type of living.
We could, therefore, classify belief-systems as religious or non-religious strictly by WHAT is believed, but the salient point is probably the quality of the belief and the conviction of the believer. Religious people believe strongly--often risking death for the protection of--non-physical theories which have no possibility of being either proven or dis-proven. Science is therefore NOT a religion because scientific belief is flexible according to proof; what can be proven is believed in science, proof does not matter in religion.
Also, there is no need to capitalize the first letter of any of these words except "Star Trek", a proper name. By itself "trek" is not a name, it is a word meaning "voyage".
In the US, as in all intelligent nations, NO religions are taught in public schools. Science is taught in school; religion is taught in church. I realize that I look "Asian", but I'm American to the core and I will not allow ANY religion to be taught in ANY public school as far as I am able to prevent that.
Schools MAY--in the context of the social sciences--choose to teach that religions exist and that social pressures are exerted by those religions, but no public school in the US is allowed to "teach religion".
I'm plotting a course out of this sector.

Answer 3

Evolution cannot be a religion because it has nothing to do with the supernatural or has any kind of rituals not does it have doctrine or a holy book. It could be a belief held by a religion but it is not one itself. Star Trek should only be taught in Pop Culture classes if at all.

Answer 4

Evolution is not a religion. You don't give to regular offering, special offering and buiklding fund while sitting on a hard seat Sunday mornings and hearing shrill music and preachers utter nonsense in quivering voices. Evolution is science, not religion. The First Amendment forbids a state religion, so Evolution should be taufgt in science calsses, but thinly disguised versuions of G3enesis creation should not be. Star Trek could be taught just as well as Genesis, for both are fantasies, but Evolution is truth.

Answer 5

Evolution is a proven fact, only the mechanisms are theory. You don't need to make a religion out of something that no one can reasonably dispute to be true.

Answer 6

Does that make Batman a religion too? Is Batman the second coming?

Answer 7

i dont agree. evolution is not a religion

Answer 8

And the planet of the apes

Answer 9

Hmmm would it be an elective or a required course?

Answer 10

yes the q took picard back to the start of man