Teaching God in schools--science class?

It's been awhile. I'm arguing this on a philosophy site. I was wondering how it would measure up here. I realize my position has changed on many things. Much of that was due to questions and discussions that started here.I'm Agnostic, Anti-religious, But still believe 'God(s) should be taught in schools. mostly, for the benefit of healthy skepticism.Science won the argument against doing so. But examine this idea: if in court, will it be the religious who are against it most? or...science?Should 'God' be taught is school? (Non religiously) - Page 17 - Philosophy Now Forum

Thread copied here from the Teaching God in schools--science class? thread in the Proposed New Topics forum.

I think Sacred Studies should be included in a good education. For background see Should Sacred Studies be part of a general public school curricula

I don't have a problem with comparative religion being studied in schools, religion is part of all our lives and our history no matter what we believe.But it would need to be taught in a factual, objective way like all other subjects, include all religions and not be an excuse to promote any particular religious propaganda.And it would also include atheism and humanism.Anything that educates believers outside of their highly defended fortress of personal belief has to be a good thing.

I addressed this basic question 14 years ago. I think I sound like I made more sense then I do now.EvC Forum: Should Sacred Studies be part of a general public school curricula

Over the years I've watched your irrationality increase in direct proportion to your fundamentalism.

This is where ideology runs into practicality. I would wholeheartedly agree that any well-rounded education should include learning about world religions, but there is no practical way for this to happen in public high schools without angering a significant portion of parents. Jimmy's uber-fundie parents will not be happy about Jimmy learning about Buddhism.Science didn't kick a Comparative World Religions course out of high schools. Christians did.Edited by Taq, : No reason given.

Offending Christians might be a very good thing fo the US, maybe the best thing to happen in at least a century. If that was all that was needed to get the offened parents to pull their little darlings out of public schools and ship them off to some more Avoidance Schools maybe the education system in the US could make great leaps forward.Let all the parents who prefer fantasy to reality take their kiddies and go; let the kids that are in touch with reality learn to think critically.

What I fear is a society with more anti-vaxxers, climate deniers, and the like. However, school tuition and/or home schooling are beyond the means of many fundy families, so maybe we shouldn't worry too much. If anything, these are reasons to vote against school vouchers for charter . . . I mean avoidance schools.

I'd certainly favor a requirement for full vaccinations before anyone is allowed out in the general public. I have no problem with anti-vaxers as long as they are segregated away from the rest of society.

I may have a better idea.When a child is found to be unvaccinated the parents are charged with child endangerment, the state terminates their parental rights and takes the child into foster care where they are vaccinated. After a few days the child is returned to the parents and the charges dropped with the written/signed understanding that for the next two years, whenever the parent ventures out into the public they must wear a big yellow V on their forehead to show how fucking stupid they are.

I'm not against comparative religion being studied in schools since they have always been a part of us. Edited by Mikee, : No reason given.Edited by Mikee, : No reason given.Edited by Adminnemooseus, : Muck up and hide spam link.

Sounds pretty fascistic to me. Coercive government that violates the very soul of Constitutional America.

If they taught the actual reality of the different religions rather than whitewashing parts of them or leaving anything out I'd be for that. As I recall though, a famous book on comparative religions I read years ago did not teach what I later learned to be the essence of Christianity: Jesus' nature as the God-Man who died in the place of sinners to save us from sin's consequences. Islam's principles of jihad and the establishment of the worldwide caliphate by violence if necessary could be spiritualized away very easily too.I think the problem may be that to do this right would require an author or authors who really know the religions from the inside, and what we get instead is "scholars" who don't get it at all and misrepresent it.Maybe that would be better than nothing, however.Edited by Faith, : No reason given.Edited by Faith, : No reason given.Edited by Faith, : No reason given.