I think they should yeah yeah i'm christian, but to say i think they should ALSO teach the Koran, the Torrah, the teachings of Buddha, Etc they shouldn't be preaching the bible, but sharing the bible and other religions beliefs in sort of a social studies approach to cultures learning more about differnent cultures will cause future adults to be more open minded, not so scared when something stupid happens in the world, prevent racisms, promote diversity
I don't think it should be taught in school. It is one thing to "get to know" a religion, but when you throw that into a class of diverse background, the conversation undoubtedly will steer towards "my religion is better than yours" and a flame war ensues. The thing is, most religion (not all, but pretty close) has in their doctrine that all worlds and people on them should be follow that particular true religion while others are false religions. It's just asking for trouble to introduce religion, especially multi-faith, into a classroom setting.
I don't think it should be taught in the school system just because not everyone are Christians. And if they were to teach all religions; it will confuse the students. Plus, can you really refrain all the educators to be judgemental and bias towards 1 particular religion? I do not think so. Besides, the separation of religion and state!
oh in part of my previous comment i say, just create a overall religion course, and students can choose to take the class or not i know lots of students will be very much disinterested/against a class such as this. while many students would very interested in this topic
I wrote a paper about this for my world religions class. I don't think they should preach it, but they should teach it, they should teach all religions, along with evolution. And the students can decide on their own what they want to believe.
@DuchSauce: But it's a bad beginning to mingle evolution with religion, because unlike religion, you won't be burnt for blasphemy if you don't believe in evolution. I reinterate that it's a bad idea to teach multi-faith class because faith is not something that is known for its tolerance. Plus, it will just have the educator end up on a slippery slope because it is impossible to divide the curriculum fairly among the faiths the course has to cover. It is interesting that moral need to be taught... but it's just me.
they don't have to hold Bible class or anything, but just mentioning it would be nice.. i mean, in history class and other classes as well, i learn about different beliefs such as buddhism, muslim, etc but christianity's the only one that's kind of kept hush-hush about.
I agree. All religion in the end teaches you o be a good peson. Theres no point to teaching about saints, jesus, god and etc. in school because it really doesnt play a big role in your life. The lesson behind all of it, being a decent human being, is what is more important
lol it doesnt make a huge difference if it is in older year classes like high school. my buddy went to a private catholic highschool cuz his parents wanted him to and apparently he just slept through bible studies, which goes to show that u cant teach/preach to older students if they really dont care to learn. but if this also applies to elementary school where young students are more prone to believe everything they hear you could turn students into little evangelists, which isnt necessarily what their parents might want... unless u are living in the southern US of course . imo, school and religion should be kept seperate, just as government and religion should be.
they already teach some religious things in history class, like about the protestant revolution (or something like that, not sure what it was called)
there's a reason y there's a separation of church and state so if u wanna learn about the bible then u shud just go to church.
I'm not talking about teaching doctrine, that's getting way to in depth; what I meant was teaching divine creation vs evolution.
Divine creation base on which religion?? Each religion has its own version of narratives on divine creation...
All of them; I know its very far fetched, but the theory of evolution has been getting an unfair advantage in schools.
