This is why religion should be totally separate from our schools - prayer and amen are words that that are not the domain of any religion - we must be an example to the rest of the world - the only religion I would personally agree with being taught in schools is Buddhism, as its main tenet is to except its teaching on your terms and only take from it what you feel is right. -- Robert, Sarasota
What Robert said! -- Anonymous, Reston, VA US
I want the tyranny of our government out of school. Religion should be taught by the parents in the home. -- Joe, Rochester, MI
Religion should be separate from our schools, including the religion of socialism and humanism. Words like "diversity" and "social conscience" should never be uttered in school, not to mention pseudo-science like human caused global warming. Stop brainwashing children and teach them to think. Like the old hippies used to say, question authority. -- Ken, Allyn, WA
I find it interesting that the Founding Fathers of the United States came from the same educational background, stepped in religion, that everyone here condemns. -- Logan, Memphis, TN
The Jesuits had a saying: Give me the first seven years of a boy's life, and we have him forever. Hitler, a professed moral Christian, also implemented massive government propganda in the classroom. There is a BIG difference between organized corporate religion and faith in 'Divine Providence'. That was a common term used by the Founders as they held some very different views than the corporate Churches of the day -- does anyone remember why people left England for the New World in the first place? Freedom of Religion -- FREEDOM of religion, not Christianity specifically -- and certainly not necessarily the way it was defined to be by the Churches of England and Rome -- nor how anyone else defines it on this list or anywhere in the world. Over and over again the Founders expressed their desire that the matter of religion be considered between a man and his Maker. Should religion be taught in school? Of course -- it is an integral part of history. But let the whole sordid history of religion be told -- and not just Judeo-Christian-Islamic versions, but Native American beliefs, Buddhism, Hinduism, Sufism as well as the classic Greek and Roman philosophies. The question isn't really whether religion can be taught in school, it is whether it is taught as THE TRUE religion. Even Christians are at odds with each other on what that indeed is... -- E Archer, NYC
One more thing -- a Jesuit education was considered to be the most complete and thorough education a man could get -- and none defended that statement more than those that were students. Dare I say, they were smart as hell. -- E Archer, NYC
