Considering the threat religion poses to republics, why are school children not taught...?

Question

...about the origins of religion, or how to think critically, or about the diverse and inconsistent beliefs of world religions, so as to innoculate them againts that threat?

Freedom of religion does not imply freedom from exposure to known facts.

Answer 1

Good point...I don't see schools doing this until kids reach college. Maybe in high school some schools do it a little. I remember having discussions about this in high school classes.

Answer 2

Nor does it imply that everyone is entitled to your opinion.

Some of us know how to think critically and have the education and life experience to prove it. That same critical thinking faculty has been used to determine the belief system that we've chosen.

And even though you'll have a hard time understanding or accepting this concept, that choice is not automatically atheism. You can be intelligent, educated, and be a member of a religion. The three things are not mutually incompatible, despite what some people would like us to think.

Answer 3

First, religions must perpetuate themselves or a lot of "Spiritual Leaders" will be out of a job. Second, no one wants their religion to come under attack from logic. Without the crutch of religion, some people are so indoctrinated that they could not function.

Freedom of religion is now interprested as the right of religion fanatics to impose their beliefs on anyone, anywhere at any time regardless of the consequences to the culture, customs and traditions of the societies or people under attack. Look at the damage to societies in Asia, Malasia, indigineous and aboriginal tribes throughout the world to see what has happened.

Of course the desire to impose religious beliefs has consequences the are seen every day in the news.

Freedom of religions is based on another axiom - Don't bother me with facts, just believe as I do.

Answer 4

False religion is definitely dangerous. Islam has slain it's thousands, and Roman Catholicism it's multitudes, and other religions have also, at times, done similar, but most bloody of all, and most of the time, atheism (an "unbelief belief system) has slain it's millions.

For Islam, it's prime authority, which greatly contradicts the Bible) commands retaliation and subduing of all rebellion until all the religion be of Allah (the moon god).

With Rome, it's Crusades and Inquisitions required and fostered ignorance of the Bible, which completely disallows killing in order to defend or expand the faith, and thus her atrocities were done under the authority of her Caesario-papacy, which exalts itself above the Bible.

As for atheism, lacking any proven, transcendent moral authority easily allows it to justify doing what is pragmatically "reasonable" in one's sight, as atheists Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot clearly demonstrated in slaying and cruelly oppressing their millions, using the political religion atheism fosters (man will always worship something)! And atheistic Communism still does today.

I agree with you that it is important for children to be taught the facts about the threats of such beliefs. Especially as it is impossible to separate a belief system from education, and secularism with it's objectively baseless morality has become the State religion.

In contrast, an examination of the Biblical church reveals a dramatically different faith, in which no one was ever killed by them defending or expanding it, while they were very often the victims of such. And who preached the saving need of Christ who died for us and rose again and who shows Himself alive today with abundant empirical proofs. May you give in to God by his grace, and know the same! .

http://www.cbn.com/700club/features/amazing/
http://www.truthsaves.org/testimony/
http://www.christian-faith.com/truestories.html
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4136610474021109864
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3682855866783766146
http://www.shelovesgod.com/library/testimonies.cfm
http://breadsite.org/topics.htm

Answer 5

I prefer that you teach them how to think lovingly instead of how to think critically. Satan will not let you teach about all religions because he knows they will all turn to Jesus Christ.

The problem is not with religion. The problem is with Christ.
The Word of God is powerful and it is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

Answer 6

'known facts' - unfortunately, this is somewhat subjective with most topics, and yes, even with regards to science.

We need to teach objectively about world religions.

Merry Christmas!

Answer 7

Great point. I think all kids should be taught the origins of most of the world's religions. Education, not indoctrination.

Answer 8

You don't wnat freedom of religion, you want freedom from religion. Well, dude, that's been tried and its been a horrible failure. Good luck with it.

Answer 9

you mean like buddhism, hinduism, communism, all of which I was toght in middle school?

Answer 10

seperation of church and state! You can do this all you want in a private school, you can't do it in a publicly funded public school.