Teaching students about atheism, whatever that means, sounds to me like an excuse to allow apologetics and other nonsense through the back door. After all, telling a class that there are people who don't believe in gods is a pretty fucking short lecture. How long could any discussion about atheism last without the usual arguments for the existence of some god (and in Ireland I'm sure the god everyone will have in mind is Yahweh) being introduced?
I'm opposed to any religious or explicitly irreligious instruction in a public classroom and agree with the earlier poster who suggested a course in logic (and, may I add, scientific method) instead. Even a class on rhetoric would be better.
I'm opposed to any religious or explicitly irreligious instruction in a public classroom and agree with the earlier poster who suggested a course in logic (and, may I add, scientific method) instead. Even a class on rhetoric would be better.
