If reilgious teaching to children was banned worldwide?

Question

until the child reached an age (16 years) that it could decide for itself about religion, would religion die out and would there be less tension in the world.
If child is born into a Christian family the child becomes a Christian just the same if it was born into a Muslim family it would follow the path of Islam. As parents we all want the best for our children but I´d be interested in other views.

I ask this question from personal experience. I went to a boarding school where no religion was taught or discussed. There were children there from not just my own country. That was over 50 years ago and none of us today are religious and we all turned out good honest people.

Hope; I´m not trying to cast aspersions against people I´m just after points of view. I agree we should all have the freedom to raise our children the way we see fit and that shouldn´t make any difference as to where you live. I just fear for the world. Religious hatred seems to have enveloped my world and I too want the best for my children.

Answer 1

I think children should have the ability to wait and choose their religion, and not have it spoon feed to them when they are little. Maybe if life was like that, I wouldn't feel the need to keep my personal religious choice to myself and hide it from my parents.

Answer 2

If you actually managed to ban it then yes, religion probably would die out (most people who are raised to be non-religious don't ever become religious).

The problem I see though is that the process of actually banning the teaching of religion is going to incite a lot of violence. By the time the non-religious have the power to force such a thing without too much violence religion would be so dead that such a law would just seem completely unneeded (and this in a society that probably wouldn't as squeamish about suppression of religion as most of today's are).

I think we'd be better off right now just letting history take its course (with a third of people losing their religion each generation, we're well on track to world domination).

Answer 3

What you're suggesting would be impossible to enforce. Not only from a legal standpoint (what would you do? Put surveillance cameras and voice recorders in every home to make sure parents never mention religion to their kids? Post cops at the doors of every church, synagogue and mosque around the world to be sure that no children attend services?) but from a child-rearing perspective as well. If the parents are observant Jews, for example, they're going to live their lives in accordance with the laws of the Torah and Talmud -- they're going to keep kosher, dress a certain way, attend synagogue services, keep the Sabbath from Friday evening to Saturday evening, etc, etc. Any child growing up in that household would grow up observing those same traditions even if the parents were scrupulously careful not to talk about G-d or religion -- and its totally unrealistic to think that parents who sincerely believe in their religion would NEVER have conversations with their kids about it. Basically, its unworkable, IMO.

I think the best way to encourage religious tolerance would be for schools to teach Comparative Religion classes so that kids could learn about other faiths besides their own. Then when they get older, they'd be in a better position to make up their own minds about religion.

Answer 4

I agree with the whole comparative religion classes. What we need is not abandonment of religion but rather education of various different religions. When you learn about your faith only and don't know squat about others and then media and politics and other people start to feed you lies about other faiths and cultures, that is how we get hatred and intolerance.

Education is the key, not elimination of education. Teach everyone about religion in school as comparative religion so they know a bit about the most poplular and dominant faiths. This will hellp rid them of ignorance and thus arrogrance and intolerance.

Also, it helps when your have family that preaches you practice your faith but respect others and their faiths as well, rather then calling others names and putting them down, polluting your children's mind with hatred and bigotry.

Answer 5

In America, you couldn't control the rebellious little heathens. As fewer people teach their children the Word of God, the schools have become war zones. Without the knowledge of God, sin increases and with every person doing as they will with no absolutes from the Lord, you will have chaos.

Today, the only help for addicts and rebellious children is the Lord who changes hearts and minds. Whether you want to believe it or not, the still Christian influence in the US gives some portion of order to our land.

If you want Hitler's Germany then ban religion! Ban everything good, so you can do all the evil that you wish.

Answer 6

what about parents who WANT to teach children about God? Public schools don't teach religion, we send them to the religious school of our denomination if we so choose.
Your proposal doesn't really hold water b/c families will teach at home, at least if your lucky enough to live and raise your children in America, it is our priviledge to excersize that freedom. Don't worry, we'll turn out to be "good people" too.

Answer 7

You talk like a Nazi and pontificate bigotry. Atheists have the perfect to coach their nonsense to their little ones, we've the perfect to coach our 'nonsense' to ours. on the 2nd, you have already succeeded in getting your bigotry commonly used interior the academic equipment in view that neverlution is acknowledged as a technological understanding at the same time because it in reality is a theory. it quite is an argument of money and not the rest for the severe-priests of neverlutionary coaching. ----- Quote: it quite is barbaric to rigidity a human to strengthen up believing what somebody else believes. you do no longer rigidity Nazi ideals on youthful little ones for a reason. Edit: Are you mentally challenged? how are you able to keep away from the indoctrination with the aid of people who have self assurance strongly interior the evolution and have taken over the academic community - neither their little ones nor all of us else can keep away from this rubbish. only in view which you may have self assurance that faith is rubbish, does that make you ideal and supply you the perfect to make it a regulation to coach evolution everywhere? make this a regulation of the land for all of us else? you need to be quite straight forward minded in case you think of that persons do no longer prepare their little ones their own ideologies and ideology, no count what they have self assurance. seem around, no count the country, no count the religion they have -- it quite is being frequent with the aid of their little ones. The Scandinavians frequently settle for evolution, and that's what maximum of their little ones have self assurance in. strengthen up!

Answer 8

Their place of worship would be Video games and Hollywood movies.

At least religions try to teach values and morals ... and a bit more tollerance would be good too.

Religious study is preferable for children, but not prejudice against other faith systems

Answer 9

there is no reason not to teach a child about God, but all four of my children were allowed to 'choose' their own religion, no matter how old they were, and they all believe in God, but none of them belong to any religion

Answer 10

Less religion = a better world.