And then the question is, which religion? And that's why the answer is NO.

As a historical basis, not a place for proselytizing!

That is what they have churches for, but they don't seem to want to teach them any facts anywa, or reason. And do not encourage the kids to think for them selves either.

Yes, religion need to be taught in school and everywhere for what it actually are, not as a believer of how good it is, which is a lie.

As long as they are teaching it as folklore, myth and delusion.

A class about theology would be fine.

Religious teaching is the most insidious form of indoctronation.
It should not be taught in schools. Religion is the politics of control through fear.

It would be wonderful if we could teach religion like we teach smallpox.

"We have a small freezer of southern baptism and related strains in the CDC freezers in Atlanta. Meanwhile, there is some Russian Orthodox Christianity on ice over in Sverdlofsk. There is reason th suspect some may have escaped and is harming the region."

"One nation under god . . ." was always a part of the pledge of allegiance. I remember as a second grader asking my atheist father why we had to say "god".

He told me it was added during the red scare to essentially differentiate the USA from the godless commies. But even at that age I knew it was all indoctrination.

Religions should be taught in Schools. All Religions should be analyzed and historically discussed as to their origins and how they came into prominence. All mistakes and translations relating to the number and who and how they were made. Special notations should be made to connect the Political Influence and the Religious Priorities that were enforced by Politicians that swayed the Populace into a certain belief.

Yes, just like teaching world languages and geography. Religious stats, figures, objective history.

Never. this is where it all starts followed by years of arguments. fights and evemtually wars, if religion can be taught in schools then what is to stop evolution being taught as well. After all, evolution makes sense not utter stupidity

Religion is just like history, sociology, philosophy, music, art, athletics, etc. It is a part of what has made up the human race. People should have knowledge of it - of all the religions. So yes - it should be taught. But it should be taught as subject matter and not in any other way.

We should teach children the damage that religions cause, how to think critically, and how to avoid the logical fallacies that blind, dogmatic faith comes with.

No don't need it enough churches around for those that want them.

The separation of church and state is as specific as it needs to be. I taught my grandson to think for himself, not to be atheist. And yet, he is atheist. WHY?? Because he wasn't being indoctrinated.

Not in public schools. Compare the number of religous organizations/churches/schools, in EVERYtown, USA to the number of PUBLIC schools! There are plenty of places for people to get their religious fix in places other than our public schools beginning with their PARENTS! Public schools are just that—PUBLIC, meant to serve ALL people, not just a select few who would otherwise seek to exclude based on religion, gender, sexuality, science, etc, etc, etc. Besides that, the public school curriculum is crowded enough already with subjects that are important for kids to have a chance to be exposed to without adding another subject—religious teachings that can and are abundantly available elsewhere.

Religious history is a necessary component to understanding history all together. It did not start with christianity and will not end there ether. If you take a long enough look, relitions and gods seems to have a 2000 year run, more or less.

Only if it's all religions

Teach them curiosity, creativity, empathy, intellectual integrity and critical thinking. It's better than religion. It is way more usefull than faith in every aspect of life.

Hell no. Science, science, science.

I agree with RonnieD's statement. Whomever first came up with that was very accurate.

Potentially in a history class, it has definitely shaped most facets of society

I believe religion should be taught in schools only if it could be strictly secular. That is, the origion of various religions and how they evolved into what they are today could be taught. An example might be how pagan belief evolved into the Zoroasterian one "sky" god concept and then the "sky" god became too remote therefore god's son had to "appear" and become more available. All religions would have to be covered i.e. the eastern religions. My fear is we won't be able to find teachers withour bias.

Absolutely not. Separation of church and state. Only reference should come in history classes but religious folks won't like hearing the whole story there.