Does religion have a place in the worlds schools and educational institutes?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Is Intellegent Design\Creationalism a verifiable science?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Does Religion has a place in society at all?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Arguments for\against Religion in schools :-k

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

No flaming ;p Or you'll all burn in H*ll :P

They don't allow talk of religon in my school. (Education wise, from the teachers)

1. No, the purpose of school is to educate and prepare you for life in the future. Since any religion can't be proven true, it should not be taught. The idea of religion and basic beliefs, however, should be taught. The factual stuff is what should be taught. \

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2. No comment

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3. Of course it does. Religion is fun to talk about with people.

It has no place in schools. We learn about theories and facts in school, not fairy tales. For all intensive purposes, to the general population, "religion" is a fairy tale.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I'm not saying there is no God, period, or trying to bag on religion, but it has no place in school. No place at all.

1. No, the purpose of school is to educate and prepare you for life in the future. Since any religion can't be proven true, it should not be taught. The idea of religion and basic beliefs, however, should be taught. The factual stuff is what should be taught. \

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I disagree. In public schools, one religion shouldn't be taught as any more correct over another - but, if we're talking about being educated and preparing for life - it is absolutely necessary to teach religion in schools - ALL religions.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Being well educated about the world - so that we can understand and therefore better communicate with all of the different world cultures - means understanding their religion. In the Middle East - their religion IS their life and government - so we need to understand where they are coming from when they do different things, and that means learning their religion.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Learning religions from an objective point of view in social science classes is vital to our education.

I see nothing wrong with a comparative theism class, or something. I know that some parts of islam were covered in my HighSchool's comparative government class.

 

 

 

Whatever religion they teach, it should be taught as just something to study/learn about, not as facts. Like interpretations of literature or history.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Creationism/Intelligent Design shouldn't be taught though, especially in a science class.

Does religion have a place in the worlds schools and educational institutes?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Is Intellegent Design\Creationalism a verifiable science?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Does Religion has a place in society at all?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Arguments for\against Religion in schools :-k

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

No flaming ;p Or you'll all burn in H*ll :P

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

No, religions shouldn't even preach to people below a certain age. If they truley beleive their religion is correct and each follower will finf their way there is no need too. All i can see it as is a form of brainwashing like most organised religions are. Organised religions are too me just large cults.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It has a place in society for those who freely choose to beleive it. I do not beleive organised religion has a place in society nor does the teachings of creation by God ect in schools. It's ignorant to teach that and at the same time go to a science class and learn about evolution. It's true evolution is not 100% proven but the chances are Evolution > Genesis. at least we are striving towards a better understabding of how we came about. Religions seems to chnage interpretations by time. Some may have said for sure that the world was the center of the universe and when that was discovered incorrect then go to say that they meant it was the center of Gods universe ect.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Religion if done correctly (well correct in my opinion) does have a place for some people in society. Organised religion and recruiting people to it through their childhood when they know no better and are forced into it has absolutley no place at all.

 

1. No, the purpose of school is to educate and prepare you for life in the future. Since any religion can't be proven true, it should not be taught. The idea of religion and basic beliefs, however, should be taught. The factual stuff is what should be taught. \

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I disagree. In public schools, one religion shouldn't be taught as any more correct over another - but, if we're talking about being educated and preparing for life - it is absolutely necessary to teach religion in schools - ALL religions.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Being well educated about the world - so that we can understand and therefore better communicate with all of the different world cultures - means understanding their religion. In the Middle East - their religion IS their life and government - so we need to understand where they are coming from when they do different things, and that means learning their religion.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Learning religions from an objective point of view in social science classes is vital to our education.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

How do you disagree with me when I agree with you?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Religion should be taught... not preached

IN MY OPINION:

 

 

 

Religion should play no role at all on public schools. If the parents want their children to be educated in a certain religious system, they'd have to pay for an alternative, specific school.

 

 

 

They have the right to get them teached anything, as long as they don't expect the government to spend it's resources on it. After all, the way their children are reared is up to them.

 

 

 

State should not finance anything directed towards one specific religion.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

EDITS: made my post a little more understandable.

As much as atheists on their high horses would want you to believe, religion is a part of our past, present, and future.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I go to a Catholic school (it's amazing to what the ignorant people here think about what it's like to be in one) and we've learned about Hinduism, Sikhism, Islam, and Buddhism. Looking forward to learning Judaism. We're visiting places of worship soon.

you should learn ABOUT religion in school, not be taught ot believe that.

 

 

 

i cant tell you how many times ive herd people say thing like "AHH ALLAH IS GAHNDI!" (do they even know the difference between hindu and islam -_-) i thinks it would be good for kids 7th+ to have a class where they learned ABOUT all sorts of religions and their beliefs, but it might be VERY HARD to get an unbiased oppinion on the subject.

We need to make a distinction between preached and taught so we actually know what people mean.

religion is a part of our past, present, and future.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I go to a Catholic school (it's amazing to what the ignorant people here think about what it's like to be in one) and we've learned about Hinduism, Sikhism, Islam, and Buddhism. Looking forward to learning Judaism. We're visiting places of worship soon.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

More so of our past, because already over 1 billion people in the world are without a religion and it is increasing. I don't doubt it's important in the daily life of many people though.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And what you mentioned, has not been always. Perhaps religious schools like that are todays more tolerant and realise the fact that other religions could be 'right' too and they study them out of respect. Just 30 years ago this didn't exist.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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I don't only agree, but that's how my school life was like, and I felt it was a very natural approach to religions. Since 3rd grade, when I was 9 years old, we had philosophy lessons and we had homework about many religions (one at a time). There was never any persuasion to 'join' a religion, we were merely studying them.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In todays world it's very important to know the customs and religions of other people. Especially if you aim for a good career in the business world or almost anything else nowadays. Being ignorant is not an option, because then there will always be people more advanced than you claiming your positions and salaries.

Well, as creator of this topic. (No pun intended :lol: )

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I do not believe Religion should be taught in schools. Although, in a free, democratic society, people should be allowed to wroship as they choose,

 

 

 

Religion has no place in Educational institutes or Governments.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

By teaching Religion in schools we are propagating something that is *probably* false and most possibly harmful.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hence the idea that Religion\Creationilism is not a science. Science relies on fact and empirical evidence to reach probable conclusions, where as Relgion appears to be specualtion, unfounded on fact.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Im happy to note that most posters so far appear to be agnostic\atheist.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

*Puts away Halogen lamp and Brainwashing 101*

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Please continue posting :

Religion has its place in school to an extent.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I don't think that school is a place for worship. I don't think that huge, worshiping ceremonies should be organized, however, if you want to pray to god to help you through your Chemistry test, then you can do so without disturbing anyone. :P

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I believe that religion can be studied, but in a very non-biased manner.

Perhaps there should be some kind of philosphy 'life' class, that emphasises questions like "why are we here?", "is there free-will?", "what is existence?" - it would encourage independent enquiry into the various available answers to the question (religious, scientific, philosophical, etc.), and would allow pupils to go their own personal direction, whatever that direction is.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In reality, I expect that most pupils wouldn't take it seriously. Ideally though, I'd say that it would be a good opportunity for people to develop their own personal ideas about life, rather than just following the ideas of their parents and the culture they were brought up in.

Does religion have a place in the worlds schools and educational institutes?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Is Intellegent Design\Creationalism a verifiable science?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Does Religion has a place in society at all?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A strong no to all. Especially Creation-Science. Because it holds absolutely no credibilty.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pretty much ditto what everyone else said. I'll gladly learn about other religions, and I can't see a problem with religious schools of choice.

Creationism should be taught, but not in science class, as it's not science. It's a philosophy, and so should be taught in a philosophy class.

I do not believe Religion should be taught in schools.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Teaching <> Preaching. Get it right.

It should be taught in an elective class called "Creationism"

Creationism should be taught, but not in science class, as it's not science. It's a philosophy, and so should be taught in a philosophy class.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yep.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We had this great class in highschool; it was called "world religions" and we got to learn about all the major religions. It was very informative.

 

Creationism should be taught, but not in science class, as it's not science. It's a philosophy, and so should be taught in a philosophy class.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yep.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We had this great class in highschool; it was called "world religions" and we got to learn about all the major religions. It was very informative.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

That's exactly the course I'm taking right now

It has no place in schools. We learn about theories and facts in school, not fairy tales. For all intensive purposes, to the general population, "religion" is a fairy tale.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I'm not saying there is no God, period, or trying to bag on religion, but it has no place in school. No place at all.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

So religion is a fairy tale? We actually have PROOF of things happening from relgion. I really do find that offensive.

 

It has no place in schools. We learn about theories and facts in school, not fairy tales. For all intensive purposes, to the general population, "religion" is a fairy tale.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I'm not saying there is no God, period, or trying to bag on religion, but it has no place in school. No place at all.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

So religion is a fairy tale? We actually have PROOF of things happening from relgion. I really do find that offensive.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

That's a laugh.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

All the artifacts relating to Christianity were discovered to be made by a team of experts to sell as phonies for very expensive prices to museums.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Besides, we have rocks. :P

 

 

It has no place in schools. We learn about theories and facts in school, not fairy tales. For all intensive purposes, to the general population, "religion" is a fairy tale.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I'm not saying there is no God, period, or trying to bag on religion, but it has no place in school. No place at all.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

So religion is a fairy tale? We actually have PROOF of things happening from relgion. I really do find that offensive.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

That's a laugh.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Your logic path would be a laugh, if it existed.