Wednesday, June 9, 2010

Wacky Wednesday--Schools Shouldn’t Teach Religion

Note: Before reading the following arguments, please understand that they are not what I believe. On Wednesdays, I deliberately argue for wrong ideas, challenging my listeners to call and defend the obvious right answer, which is usually far harder than one would expect. This is a summary of what Wacky Andrew will be arguing, not a representation of what real Andrew believes.

~How do you teach religion without indoctrinating?
~How can we be sure it’s being taught without bias?
~Do you want non-Christians teaching the Bible to anyone, let alone to your own children?
~Teachers themselves don’t know enough about religion to teach it.
~It’s unconstitutional because of the separation of Church and State.
~How do you avoid having the children of one religion be drawn away either from devotion to their own religion as uniquely precious or actually toward another religion which their impressionable young minds finds enticing and alluring?

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