Should Religion Be Allowed In School?

Yes.

Yes, The public must know of Batgod

Religion being allowed in school would be a good thing inasmuch as it does not affect what courses they are going to study. Religious belief and faith should not detriment what people learn in their science classes though.

I say let there be religion in school but lets keep it separate from other curriculum.

You smart person you ^_^

@616vulture: You shall rejoice in eternal prep, brother.

@claymore1998: Schools namely mine is contraction in itself

I can't read my bible

But a student can wear the Muslim masks

But I can get a referral also.....i believe religion should be allowed its not harming anyone.

@scorpion2501:

Did you just say something nice about me? I fear the world might be coming to an end ^_^

@beyondergod:

I am totally with you on that ^_^

@beyondergod: Do you mean the practice of religion or religious education or both?

@claymore1998: Uh I never talked badly about you e.e

@beyondergod:

Oh I know I was talking about Scorpio, we are always joking all the time saying mean things about each other ^_^

@mandarinestro: Both

@claymore1998: Tssss, me being kind isn't that much of a rarity! I do it all the time! Well, on serious topics at least. When we're less serious, yeah :P.(Also, we shouldn't derial this thread like we do with others.)

no, that's what Sunday School is for

I don't think so. I don't see a point. Seems like something you'd learn at home better.

Not to mention, I don't think there's any way you could give every religion the time it deserves in school, and you can't teach kids about just one or two religions. And then where do you draw the line? If someone is a Wiccan or Hell, even a Jedi, do we suddenly have to rearrange the entire curriculum to fit those things into the course?

Nah. Nah, I think religion is something you should find out from your home life or research on your own. There's plenty of material out there, and people to talk to.

When 20% of English kids apparently think Jesus plays football then I think it's wise to teach religion. And, as long as you're not part of the Creativity movement, religion should be allowed to be practiced as well (as long as you don't make it an excuse to get out of all your classes).

Yes. Only in grades where students wil understand it and are accountable for their own decisions.

What do you mean by "allow religion in schools" . As in religious studies?

Yes

I'm not a religious person but I firmly believe it should be allowed in schools, just not enforced by schools. Whether you're religious or not you can't argue with the fact that religion has had a major impact on human culture and history and to ignore it is to ignore a major part of the development of civilization.

That being said, it should be a student or faculty member's own choice about how to handle it.

No it should not be in schools and should not be in our government. Thats why there are churches.

"Keep thy religion to thy self."

Yes

All but the most extreme of anti-religious folks think religion should be allowed in school. Students should be able to do whatever they want religiously. Also, teachers would be irresponsible to try and teach subjects like history and many aspects of English without mentioning religion. The questions is whether the school staff should be able to do anything to promote religion.

Many people say the school cannot do anything to promote religion because of "Separation of Church and State," but Separation of Church and State isn't actually in the Constitution. The actual Constitution says, "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof," so the Federal congress can neither establish nor limit religion.

Beyond this point, I'm undecided because of two reasons. 1. Does the fact that every public school gets some federal funding mean that any act that school does to promote religion violates the prohibition on the federal congress from establishing religion? 2. What exactly qualifies as establishing a religion anyway? Our Founders had no problem praying to open Congressional sessions and doing lots of other pro-God stuff with the government, so where do you cross the line into establishing religion?

I'm not completely decided.

Props to anybody who actually took the time to read this instead of playing the TL;DR game.

Sure, but it shouldn't be the way it is now.

@claymore1998: Ok.

Yes, students have freedom of religion and expression

As an extended part of human history, teaching ethics and morals...sure. Not divercified special classes for each religion.

Well in the UK we had RE at school. (Religious Education) Where we basically learnt about religion and weren't preached to believe in a certain religion. At least that was the case with high school. At Primary we sung hymns, I don't think schools should make pupil's sing hymn's or force a certain religion on people.

Schools should be secular.

Yes; allowing religion in school would be allowing religion to return to school. When I was in K-12, evolution was not taught, although biology was taught; if evolution is now being taught in school, than a course in creation science or intelligent design should also be taught; if not, than both evolution and creation science should be reserved for college level school; this is so that students can at least be aware of the evidence that contradicts some of the conclusions that some teachers and professors are making about evolution and teaching them as established facts to students (e.g. like how metabolism and the ATP process works, which is very different); evolution in pre-historic Earth is just as much speculation as creationism is logical fact, so, there's really no problem; insisting on evolution is basically conceding that students should be taught atheism as the accepted norm; that's the practice that must be stopped. Since school prayer was once the norm, I do not think that other religions should be a factor in deciding to allow school prayer to return.

Now, teaching religious education can become a bit more sticky, because a few students may be apart of non-Christian and non-Jewish religions; but, most students will either be Judeo-Christian or not practicing any religion (e.g. this large group that does not include atheists and agnostics); so, a study in Christian education can be allowed, where students who do not fit that category can opt out, because of a strong conviction against it due to another religion. However, I don't think a course in creation science necessarily fits this category as much as it fits science.

As long as you don't make religion mandatory, then yes, I don't see an issue.

Religions are big part of our society, kids should learn how they were formed, how they evolved, divided and merged over the centuries, and how they effect us.

Well that depends on what you mean. Do you mean a mandatory (seperate) Religious classes or Religion in secular classes such as Science and History ?

Religion shouldn't be supported by schools, but people within students, teachers etc... should have religious freedom to believe as they please. But if you represent the government, you shouldn't show a particular bias.

As far as bible studies, no.

@dshipp17: Intelligent design isn't necessarily contradictory to evolution. In schools, science is taught, which evolution is currently science's best explanation of how we evolved. The only reason you contest evolution is DUE to your religion, so if you want to learn about intelligent design, or creationism, go to a church.

PRAISE WENJUN CHEW AND BAT-GOD, THEIR HOLINESS AND DIVINITY IS ABSOLUTE!

@616vulture said:

Yes, The public must know of Batgod

Amen.

%80 Yes

%80 No

AYYYY LMAAOOO

Yes.

I think Religon should be thought in school from a pragmatic non biased standpoint.

Nope.

I don't see why not.

In public schools? No. Leave that sh*t at the door. Like kids need something else to be made fun of.

Absolutely not and people need to stop trying to force religion on other people, that's how the most aggressive atheists come from...

@jayc1324: waste of time, people will develop a distorted perception of reality and morals.

@dimitridkatsis: they will do that anyway. But religion is a big part of peopels lives, especially in history.

It's also a big part of alot of wars and atrocities.

100% correct.

So true.

@dimitridkatsis: yes they will. There are other influences out there. And those things are important to learn about.

@vance_astro: Yes which are also important to learn about

Same. I do believe it is fundamental to learn about different religions in RE.

But dammit. Keep it out of the Science class!

Religion was part of the good things too. Like the first and second great awakenings which actually helped inspire great things like the feminist movement and abolitionist movements. America was a country built on religion and religious principles. Religion cannot be ignored, especially in school.