(March 18, 2014 at 4:01 pm)Aral Gamelon Wrote: Do you support it? Why or why not?
I, of course, support it and find any lapse in enforcement of secularism in public school to be abhorrent. That being said I would really like to know your opinions (yes, even you, theists) and why you hold them.
My reasoning:
Firstly, as an atheist, I don't pay my taxes so that teachers or administrators can push their dogma onto my child and get paid for it to boot. Secondly, I don't believe that religion, outside of historical or artistic reference, or an objective optional class on world religion, has relevance to education.
Secular schooling is vital to a productive nation. We need the young to lead, innovate and take control. They cannot do that with the mentality of god's will is above us all. Like Neil Degrasse said " The moment you accept things for what they are and stop looking for ways to better nature for our benefit, you become useless to society." In addition, there is no time for religion in school. If we're going to teach religion we might as well drop the christian ego-centrism and teach them all. But fairy tales and all that is without evidence does not belong on any curriculum set for the developing minds.
PM me if you know where this is from "...knees in the breeze" and don't look it up!!
