(July 23, 2025 at 12:52 pm)Rizen Wrote:(July 23, 2025 at 12:33 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: Religion should never be taught in any tax funded public school except in the context of the history of a country or the social makeup of a country. You simply cannot teach about fully about history without the mention of religion and religious based events coming into play.
While in Catholic school, I took a course called World Religions, it was actually a good class.
Agreed.
To be clear, I think religions have had a far more negative impact than positive throughout history and should eventually be done away with. But realistically there's no feasible way to do that and won't be for a very long time so for now I think furthering education is the best answer we have.
I think organized religion is likely to disappear faster than you think, particularly mainstream Christianity. Church attendance is falling faster than a skydiver with a defective parachute, primarily because Christian sects are not addressing the wants and needs of their membership.
I think that as less and less people attend religious services, the more likely they are to adopt a more - for want of a better word - wholesome religious viewpoint. In other words, they might pay more attention to Jesus and less to St. Paul.
Boru
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