skullaria wrote:
For my own child, I'm happy with wide and shallow exposure. I think the Bible belongs in school, but so does the Koran and every other holy book. Any book that influences huge numbers of people is worthy of study IMNSHO, but at an age where abstract thinking is developmentally possible, and not before. But if they aren't there, I don't really care that much. It just isn't that important to me.

I'd agree that they belong in schools, but not where they currently are. Having them in the libraries is absolutly fine. Having a set lesson that teaches the different religions from a neutral point of view is also fine, and I'd possibly go so far as to say that it should be the case. Anything more than that though is too much.

The school I went to had hymns and prayers in the morning assembly that everybody went to at least twice a week. These were mandatory - you couldn't decide that you didn't want to go, and you couldn't get excused without a very good reason. It also had RE lessons that - from memory as it was many years ago - did a lot more teaching of Christianity than all of the other religions combined. I seem to recall that we covered the fact that there were other religions, and brief details about what they were and so on. That was about a terms worth of study out of nearly 5 years of RE lessons.

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