Teaching religion in school

[Chad32]

The thing about philosophy is that children are ill equipped to consider such deep abstract concepts that have been debated for tens of thousands of years. I would say that it should not have the same priority in education as math, science, language, and history. In fact, you probably wouldn't be worth a crap in philosophy without knowing basic things like evolution is true, that germs cause disease instead of demons, and that virgin births and rising from the dead were actually all the rage in old mythological stories.

I say we leave abstract concepts to the adult, and focus on concrete concepts for our children. I know a well educated adult is much less likely to take religion seriously if s/he wasn't raised in it when s/he was a child, but that's more the fault of religion than education and child rearing.

The closest thing I would agree with is an elective course in the higher grade level, where one religion is not raised any higher than another. Christianity would be on the same level as the greek myths. Of course anyone pushing for religion to be taught in school is not going to settle for that. They'll complain if they even see a bible in the mythological section of a library, instead of the non fiction section.