There is no proof that any religion is true, it mainly being passed down from adults to children when very young, lets keep your fairy tale religious beliefs out of the school room, and also out of Government.

'runner,
Since the days of Socrates it has been known that people who have learned how to think clearly are better citizens. '

if that's the case Foyle then the secular system has certainly produced people who can't think very clearly. Secular Humanism is among the most closed minded of all the belief systems around. That is why it produces such rotten fruit.

Keep that dumb crap away from our kids. isn't it bad enough that their parents still get sucked in by primitive superstition ?
Keep Religion in the home, keep it out of the public.

Regardless of whether a person believes in a particular religion, it has been a powerful force in human history and is worthy of study. Knowledge and faith are quite separate things.

Candide: "Regardless of whether a person believes in a particular religion,…" If you assume (you probably don't) that those of us who reject belief in gods are opposed to childern being taught about religion, please be assured that is not the case. As you say, religion has been such a powerful force in the history of our species that it would be criminal not to teach children about it. But they must be taught about it, not compelled to believe it. They should be taught that people have come up with an astonishing range of beliefs to satisfy their wonder at what life is all about but that not one such belief has been found to be so convincing that the whole world has agreed, "yes, that's the answer." They should be taught that religious belief has led people to do many many good works but also to commit many atrocities. And they should be reassured that no child is a little Anglican, Catholic, Muslim or anything else because you cannot be any of these things until you are old enough to make a mature judgment about what you believe. Pressuring children to accept without question things that adults believe that are not supported by evidence is just another form of child abuse. Are you there, Runner?

GlenC
But it's alright to do all those things in the name of the State?