Irish schoolchildren to learn about atheism

[Einharjar]

How would one teach atheism? Its not as if its a discipline and it has no rituals to classify it as a religion. You cannot be indoctrinated as a result. Saying the class teaches atheism must be a ploy deployed in words to make it sound terrible. Atheism I'd the RESULT of skepticism and rationality, both of Those you Could teach. However not atheism itself. That'd just as bad as teaching creationism. You smash an answer to the kids faced without letting them see the problem worked out. I sure hope that's what they mean to teach and not just "there are no gods because there is no proof" logic loops.

But that's the main reason I'm an atheist...

From my experience though, atheism is just a RESULT of rationality, skepticism and curiosity. I would not and will not ever go to a school that suggests atheism as a standard areligious practice or philosophy as a whole. I'm an atheist because I see no evidence yes, but I'm more than that. It's because of the scientific method, reason and mathematical logic that I, when it comes to the question of God's, reject those claims. It's real freaking shallow to lift atheism up to the religious squander that is today's faith-based philosophies. Atheism shouldn't even be mentioned because it only exists due to those who suggest there are gods. If there is no pizza in my apartment, I'm not a apizzaist. I just know there is simply, no fucking pizza available. My reason takes me there, to the answer. A simple one. The only "religion" I follow is the scientific rhetorics and methods and it is these things plus the rewards of curiosity that they should be teaching. By teaching religious ethics and including the ethics that some people deny dieties basically reinforces the debate about God's existing when there shouldn't even be one. Period. End of story. Belief in how our universe works should never be a damned choice. It should be a problem that you solve for yourself with the tools like the modern physics models and quantum mechanics. Simple math, astronomy, molecular physics. Learn these, know that you can test the findings yourself and then decide what you believe. I just think its counter intuitive to teach labels without any depth as that gives kids the easy way, "oh, just choose if you're a theist or atheist. No harder than choosing democrat or republican right?".