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Billion + believe in Satan. Should all schools be mandated to teach Creationism?

We must save our children from foolish belief in the supernatural.

Education is the only tool that we have to drag ourselves and our children out of ignorance and superstition and that education should include that it is foolish to read myth literally. No more Dark Ages should be allowed.

Comparative Religion should be taught to insure that no child is lost to creationist intellectual dissonance. We must expose our children to Comparative Religion as soon as they can understand Evolution which would be taught alongside of it.

To do less would be shirking our duty to our children and their young minds. If you do not supports this type of all-inclusive education, please show why you oppose it?

Remember that when President Bush backed up stem cell research, it gave other countries a chance to advance away from the U.S. and hurt the U.S economy.

If the U.S. fails to educate it’s children properly in Comparative Religion and Evolution --- and the various sciences that stem from it, --- the U.S. will shrink it’s economy and power as compared to those countries who have a fuller and more intelligent education program.

Do you agree that it is the duty of the U.S. education system to maintain a first world standard of education in the teaching of Creationism, Comparative Religion and Evolution, --- and catch up to more intelligent countries?

Regards
DL

Amazingly school below the post-secondary level teaches little to nothing about what it means to be human per Philosophy 101.

The emotional intelligence of human being as well as physical intelligence per philosophy of physical intelligence is sorely lacking.

The result of that is clear to see, in one third of all school age children who are pre-diabetic type two diabetes, soaring rates of pain killers among adults approaching 50% of the population and anti-depressants increasingly used in childhood cases of depression of what was close to unseen in previous generations.

The last thing we need is more of the supernatural and THE FIRST THING WE NEED IS MORE ABOUT OUR HUMAN NATURE AND ALL OF IT, not just the mechanical cognition ways of consumer life.

I guess the schools think that peers and parents and such are responsible for that, but the FACT OF THE MATTER is the herd is ignorant now on what it even means to be HUMAN BEING, overall.

PERHAPS IT IS improving somewhere but from what I know about physical education only required to freshman level of high school, there are going to be more, than ever before, 'ret*d' kids in physical intelligence, sensory integration/intelligence, and emotional intelligence as the Cerebellum controls the regulation of all three, and yes more sick kids and adults too, that we all will pay healthcare for eventually, in the United States.

Not sure what it is like where you live Gnostic Bishop and hope it is better.

Why would you teach Creationism if you don't want children believing in the supernatural?

By "comparative religion", do you mean teaching children about the variation in religions so they become critical of them all?

Your post is also confusing me. You say you want kids to realize that creationism isn't real, then you say it should be taught. Are you saying it should be taught as wrong and critically torn apart in school courses?

As much as I don't like creationism, I don't think that is the schools job to do. If we were to teach/correct every ridiculous thought held by people in school, we'd have no time left to teach actual subjects.

So go ahead and teach "Comparative Religion"; just don't teach that any one religion is any more or less "true" or "righteous" or "moral" than any other.

Teach so that the Christian Crusades and the Inquisition are presented as direct comparisons to the Islamic beheadings and suicide bombings. Teach so that the Christian Witch Trials are presented in direct comparison to the Islamic Witch Trials, and the heinous methods of execution used by both. Teach so that the Christian harassment of non-believers is presented in direct comparison to the Islamic harassment of the "Infidels".

Teach so that every religion is presented for what they are: Human social contrivances made solely to control the masses and to suppress or exterminate anyone whose beliefs are heretical.

If you put all the different creation stories next to each other (the Abrahamic God, Odin and his brothers, the Vedas and so on) people will quickly see that all of them cannot be true at the same time. Maybe all of them are nonsense?
I think the most important thing is to get people interested in science. As a kid I was interested in early life and history, so I knew about the origin of humans before I heard the religious stories.

It all takes time.

I look at how religious western societies were when I was a teen in the 70's, during the sexual revolution. Since then we've had more from feminism, neo-liberalism, many new faces of political correctness, new levels of openness and access (courtesy of the Internet), general acceptance of gay marriage, huge growth in atheism, and a tide of other changes. That much widespread social change in just one or two generations is without precedence.

I look at the middle east, where some of the religious rhetoric reminds me of the crusades. They're modernizing and becoming civilized a lot faster than we did.

The pace of change, largely due to the Internet, is creating expectations that people can't match. We want less superstition and we want it now. With some things, people just don't change that quickly. We also see a backlash in the way fundamentalism is fighting back.

I agree, that education is one of the best ways to fight ignorance and superstition. But I'm not so sure about comparative religion. It's a concession, but it may also muddy the waters. I wonder how often such concessions were given in the advancement of medicine or other sciences when they were in contention with the church.

I don't have an answer, but I'm glad we're headed in the right direction.