is it moral to take religion out of schools?
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Is it legal to push your religeon on those that dont believe in it?!?!?! I think that answers your question. Better yet - if it was Islam they were pushing in school, would you want your child present???\n\nNot only is it moral to remove religeon from schools, it should be mandatory. Children are in school to LEARN, not to pray, not to learn about God. God cant get you a job or pay your bills. If you insist on God being present in schools, send your children to the seminary for an education.
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schools no longer are allowed to teach information like this,  they are required to teach the lie that there is a seperation of Church and State.\n\nPublic schools are now used to teach the agenda of the non christians, in science and evolution, to gay rights agenday and more.
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I would say it is a moral affair now, but certainly not a religious one.\n\nActually, Church and State are more separated now than almost any time in our nation's history.\n\nExample #1 -several schools across the country have banned the phrase "under God" from the Pledge of Allegiance, so atheist children "would not be offended by it."\n\nIf that's not separation of Church and State, I don't know what is.
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Schools are for educating children in academia.\nHomes should be the place morals are taught.\nMore & more I see schools, the N.E.A., the government, trying to indoctrinate children with what they believe is right.\nMy idea of family values won't necessarily concur with those of any of my child's teachers.  Even the teachers will all have a different outlook on which behaviors are correct.  Unless, of course, they get their guidelines from the N.E.A., then we'd have a government entity trying to teach morals to our kids. The N.E.A. is an aggressive group that wants to indoctrinate our kids from Kindergarten through highschool.\nJust read some of their policies they advocate.
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No. Religion is seperate from State, and it's not the State's business which religion I belong to.
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I don't think it'd be a particularly bad thing for there to be a religion course in public schools.  Religion is a huge part of modern society, and to be ignorant of (or worse, prejudiced about!) it is to lack understanding of a key factor in today's world.  You just can't fully understand events in Iran, Saudi Arabia, India, England, Tibet, Israel, France, Norway, the United States, or a myriad of other nations if you don't understand religion.  As for which religions should be taught, it should naturally be all the major ones, not just Christianity.
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Conservatives usually don't try to convert others. Instead, they either rant to vent their own spleens or else they preach to the choir. However, although I support the ACLU, I don't think it's right to deny a student the right to talk about God at his high school graduation. After all, the student is simply expressing himself, and not the views of his school or the government that funds his school. I don't think that his mentioning God in any way violates the separation of church and state.
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Yes and no.\n\nSome people need religion more than others. Religion is a guidance to how one should behave in public and private. It teaches people how to be fair, how to love, how to think when one does not have parents who teaches him/her. Religion is a spring broad, a tool, but it should not be the answer to all problems. Religion teaches morals. It does not specifically help you live your life. It teaches shame, humility and dos and don'ts, but how you live is up to your interpretation.\n\nWhen someone takes religion to an extreme, that's when trouble happens. This is when the world is not at a better place due to religion.\n\nYou will also have the opposite extreme or no religion, no morals, and that's no okay either. Crimes will take place all over, no one would feel safe. It will be survival of the fittest. The law is built on ethical and moral beliefs. If it were not for religion, who would it be to judge that an ax murderer will get life or get off scott free?\n\nTo answer your question, and it is a good one that you are asking, If religion were never to have existed, we may still have ethics and moral, because they are part of religion, but at the same time, no religious people are still ethical and have their own set of morals that they live by (common sense and logic).\n\nAs for now, we do live in a society that has religion and I don't feel that we are in a better place, because at the moment, the other side of the world is fighting over religion and who has the right religion or the better religion. Why can't we all just get along?
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That is a touchy subject, but I know one thing when I was in school we had prayer.  You didn't know who was against it or not, we just did it.  It seems like to me ever since they took it out of the schools there has been a whole lot of killings, stabbings, shootings, and disrespect for one another.  I think if we  bring it back it will make people think before the act, and maybe put the fear of God in some.  If they can keep it on our money, it certainly wouldn't hurt to put it back in the schools.  You don't hear the non-believer's complaining about take "In God We Trust" off our currency.  Why is that?  Moreover, money is the root of Evil.  I say we take "In God We Trust" of the money because it is not worthy to most who abuse it. Put it back in the schools with our children and let then decide.
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Religion is not taught in schools.  We have separation of church and state, meaning that you have freedom of religion and the government won't force a belief on you.  That's why religion is not taught in school.
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yes I definitely think you should bring your Bible to school. It's our job as Christians to share the Gospel to those we are around, so yes, you should share your beliefs. When you get criticized for it, just pray for God to give you strength. He will help you through it.
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Yes, i think it should be talked about, but from an objective viewpoint that is impartial to any particular faith. Teachers should teach, not preach.
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No.\n\nReligion should be taught by families and in churches, temples, mosques, etc. \n\nWhile I would like my children to have strong morals, faith and belief, I also want my children to have as much knowledge as possible. \n\nIn public schools, a comparative religions class is perfect (and necessary, I believe). Everyone should have a firm and accurate understanding of other religions (what they blieve, some traditions, explanations, how they are different and most imporantly how they are similar). Telling children which is religion is best or right, however, is not acceptable. Parents and Guardians have the right to raise their children as they see fit, but children also have the right to choose the religion they believe is best for them.\n\nWhat should be taught in public schools are things like reading, writing, arithmetic, history, language, philosophy, and science. Children go to school to gain knowledge (including knowledge of religion, for exmaple, in a comparative religions class), not to gain faith. I won't trust others to teach faith (and one cannot truly teach faith) to my children, and I don't think most people should. Not in a public school anyway.
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Never school.  Creationists should be very careful of this Pandora's Box!  I'm a teacher who very carefully does not teach morals, and gives  a very balanced view of religions when asked, directing them back to their parents when I can.\nIf you make me teach Creationism, I will also teach the other twenty-five creation stories I know of varous cultures and learn more to boot!  When school becomes the teaching of religious ideas rather than scientific theory because people don't understand that scientists (for the most part) don't consider any of their ideas about questioning and doubt, especially Evolution (since we can't time travel yet), then it is time for our children to be taught ALL religions and belief systems rather than let one dominate.  I strongly suggest that the people who understand religion, and those who understand science, stand up and speak against the people who have made religion into a mockery of science, and science a mockery of religion.  Those who try to force religion into the form of a theory, and those who try to push evolution as a proof that religion is wrong (rather than just an incomplete, but useful theory based on the best scientific evidence we presently have), are very deluded and must be faced with those of us who understand religion, science, or both, combining our efforts to speak our peace.  We know the two aren't at war.  It's those trying to crush the other that are, and there are far more of us than of them.\nDon't silence them.  Just put their numbers, and arguments, in perspective.
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Religion and politics are a BAD combination! You should keep the two as separate as possible as often as possible. No church should have an official political stance. If it does, it should lose its tax-exempt status.
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Absolutely not. \n\nLet me put it this way. Who's religious belief is right? \n\nIf you can answer that question, then we can have prayer in schools. If not, then you can begin to figure out why there is no prayer in school. \n\nSee, if the state begins to determine what prayers can be prayed in public school, then the state makes an endorsement of a particular religion. From there, the state gets more involved in the politics of religion. \n\nNow, the last thing you want is the government telling you how you should or shouldn't pray, right? \n\nLet me go a step further. Let's say we go with the fact that 90% of Americans believe in God. So, you say "Hey, we can just pray to a generic god. Then nobody's discriminated against." (Except the 10%, of course.)\n\nExcept, praying to a generic god is a sin. You pray to the one true god, otherwise, you're really ticking god off. Besides, Christians are pretty fond of Jesus and would get really ticked at keeping him out of prayers, don't you think?\n\nSo, we have to make a choice. Who's religion is the right one? Well, Christians outnumber everybody else by a wide margin in the US, guess we'll make Christiantiy the de facto religion of the US. (85% of believers are Christians of some form or another in the US. So we take 85% of the 90%)\n\nExcept, which version of Christianity is the right one? Do we have Catholic mass? Do we have have Baptismal hymnals? What about those who refuse to engage in the prayer? Will there be repercussions? (You bet there will be by those who do pray versus those who don't.)\n\nOK. You might say I'm complicating the problem, but I'm not. Essentially, we have a separation of church and state to avoid internal conflict in the country over who's religious belief is the correct one. We also, don't want a government telling us who to worship and how to worship. (Living in a religion dominated society is called, theocracy. See the Middle East for what our lives would be like if we had a church dominated government.)\n\nKeeping prayer out of schools and government allows us to live in a country where we have religious freedom. The freedom to worship as we choose of our own free will.\n\nIn other words nobody is penalized for not being of the "correct" faith. Everybody has the freedom to worship without government oversight and being bullied by social pressures. Nobody is at risk of the majority telling them how to live. \n\nAmerica is about freedom. Freedom from government endorsed religion is a good thing.\n\nHope that makes sense.
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I am sure you don't want a real answer to this question but one that simply reinforces your own views. However, the purpose of our schools is not to glorify Christ or any other religion. Religion is a personal matter to be taught in the home.