Steve brought it to the point: teaching about and teaching a religion are two different things. Teaching about religion should however not be a separate course, but just one part in a more general course like ethics&philosophy, since ethical and and philosophical traditions and schools already were there before the forming of today'S existing major monotheistic dogma, and cover a far greater field in - historical relevant - matter. I mean in a school curriculum there is not enough time to just give everything its own weekly classes. We have in general physics, therefore, and not one course on Newton, one on Planck, and one on general physics. Also there cannot be one course on Kant, one on Descartes, one on let's Epiktet and one on monotheism - additionally to the rest of philosophy, which is not really poor in names and schools to be mentioned.
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