(May 25, 2022 at 12:31 pm)Orbit Wrote: Maybe my profession biases me, but I think religion should be taught as an academic subject - as an examination of culture, society, politics, power, and history, and not as a source of "belief" or "truth", starting at about junior high school.
Yeah, I have no problem with it being taught as an academic subject. We had that... Religious Education (RE)... in Middle School I think (ie in the UK about 9-13 age) and it was an interesting subject as far as I recall...but that sort of comparative study of religions pretty much exemplifies the sort of dispassionate objectivity, that as I said, I hope people would try and be mindful of in private... unlikely I know... because there's no realistic expectation that parents won't passionately pass on their beliefs to their children, intentionally or otherwise, but it's still a nice ideal.
