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Originally Posted by Hottentot
We already cover it where necessary. Whereas stuffing the whole Christianity to our classes not only doesn't serve any purpose and is a pedagogically bad move, but also practically impossible timewise.
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I do not object to any of that.
What Armistead said and what I also think is that in a secular state, public schools should give dedicated religious classes no room but that the state should stay out of such lobby-focussed religious education. Still, said religions have been influential economic and political actors in history - sometimes in good and more often in bad, and thus are an object to be covered by history courses, like Rome, WWII, the Enlightenment and so. So I do not mean religions should be the only object, but one amongst many objects taught about in history classes. Teaching their history is one of the best ways to demask religions, and teaching it should not be left to religion's representatives - that would be like putting the fox in command of the henhouse.