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But with parents, they most likely only see one path, the one that they're raised in, and may never find one that suits them because they only know of one.

So let us go against what our Founding father's dispised, because a few tards want to be taught about religion, because they are to lazy to research it themselves?

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Read above whitie.

true, i do see stalingradk's point of following the parents path but public school is not the place for it. Even as an elective it still violates seperation of churhc and state.

You are over-emphasizing it way too much. It was not just religion; if anything, religion actually played a small role in this.

If the child really wants to learn about relgion, they will research it on their own time...

It's not the place for schools to teach it, when they can go to a farking library and research -_-

How does it go against what our founding fathers dispised? It is not a dictatorship at school, you have a choice ya know.
And not everyone has the same possibilities as you and I, you have to think about the bigger picture, and not locally. What about people that live where it's hard to find anything that doesn't involve your country. ex 2/3rd world countries. And what's the pain of teaching kids about different religions and the cultures within for 2 months in a Social Studies class? That's all I did in the 7th grade, we got a lot out of those 2 months. And It's still not like you have to change your beliefs.


When taught right it doesn't, or my old Socials Studies teacher would be fired

StalingradK, perhaps I'm mistake, but if you believe we should teach religion in classes (elective/time spent is irrelevant), tell me what good comes out of it that does not violate the Constitution.


Wrong you are. The support of religion (in any way) is strictly prohibited.

There is a difference between teaching religion and teaching what influences religion has had on people.

Martin Luther and the Reformation is ok. Telling us what the bible said is not.

It's part religion, yeah, but mostly what you get out of learning how people around the globe live under it. Don't look at it as religion maybe, but a set of guidelines for some people to live under. Because a lot of religions don't involve just believeing in a god/s but living a certain way.

I never said taking beliefs into consideration, just other people's culture. Teaching bible excerpts is not what was going through my mind when i typed all this.

You're not teaching religion then, you're teaching society and how it functions. Making a reference to religion is not teaching religion.

It kind of is, because religion is what is guiding the people, not their own made up rules.

ex. we were taught in the Islamic religion, 5 times a day, people pray facing Mecca, this affects their lives. Just because you don't have a book to preach from, does not mean you are not teaching religion, because not everyone believes in the books. If teaching the practices, prophits, and beliefs of a religion that affects their lives isn't technically teaching religion, what is?

Where do you get your information from? I use wiki and old U.S. history books that I never turned back in.

Supporting the ideas and explaining why they should do this.

Hrm got me there.... Fine I will change teaching religion to teaching religious concepts?

If there are islam children in the School, you can't possible ban religion from schools, or so called Alah will get mad at the islam Children who did not pray 5 times per day a lot, then that's a total mess up.

Err... I just read the Last 10 Posts [ In reverse order ] and notice StalingradK's post.

Teaching religious influence.

There are more facts behind Christianity than evolution. Just last night, I saw a documentary on Mt Atarat, the one supposedly carrying Noah's ark.


Let me emphasize that.


Blindly following and understanding are two WAY different things Euro.


As previously mentioned, it's the parent's perrogitive to not allow that. I, myself was not allowed much if any video games. I just think that some kids shouldn't be allowed to have them, but I'm getting off topic. I've seen parents who dont allow games like that and they're athiest, so I would not limit that to solely religious people.


A reason to have the class. I do agree, though, that if they really wanted to learn about it, there are books and the internet.


The nation was loosely based on christian principals, not beliefs.


A lot of it was Primo Geniter. This is where only the eldest son may inherit the father's wealth, so the younger sons are forced to find a living elsewhere, and the slowly crowding streets of Britain are no place to do this, so they head over to the colonies.


I think that if they're really wanting to know about it, they can research it, but researching doesn't have the social aspect nor the debate of a classroom. It's a bit hard to debate with a book.

well i go to a catholic school but do u mean public? the teachesr and school community are teaching religion because theres a hole in the evolution chain and they think religion could be a possibility. Anyways there not Telling them its true, there just letting the kids know.

anyways thats wat i think



--Vizual

That doesn't make sense.

wat doesnt make sense, evolution isnt fully true and they are starting to think there is a god and religion is true, and now they are letting kids know about other theories of the creation of the earth and mankind

uh no. They aren't starting to think its true. the only ppl who think its true is the believers of the faith. ppl who are religious and are on the schoolboards want to teach it.

Um... The last time I knew, religion spoke that evolution is fake -_-

Ok, this topic died a long time ago. I've already shown why religion shouldn't be in schools; no one has refuted the arguements.

Take your evolution/creation arguements elsewhere. If you're going to create one, I highly suggest looking at past threads because I don't want to repeat the same arguements over and over.

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CheeZe, you shouldn't sound so finite and conclusive about your own arguments. People are allowed their own points of view. Besides, if you are going to moderate, I'm fairly certain you shouldn't show such blatant bias.