I would say it's Okay to teach about religions, but not to teach religion as if it were reality.

We need to know & understand about the whole world! Since when has ignorance helped anybody with anything?!

Only if ALL religions are treated and taught as mythology.

I have no problem with kids learning about religions in public schools as a part of cultures. The problem comes when education about certain religions become proselytizing or the education omits the negative aspects of their histories. That education about religions includes different belief systems and not just one would tend to balance away from the proslytizing aspect of dealing with the subject matter. Treating them all with equal emphasis would also be necessary.

If it's an elective for high-schools ... why not?

There are more than 2998 religions in the world. How can they teach all religions?

Of course they should. World religions should be thought at school. I went to school in Sweden and we were thought about different religions.

Religious studies should be taught in all schools as an academic subject, the history and theory behind each of the major religions and philosophies should be covered. No one religion should be given any credence over an other, or regarded as being true, but all merely regarded as human belief systems. It is better to have knowledge of all in my opinion, as denial of knowledge breeds ignorance.

How can one pick a specific religion and omit all the others .Unless all religions are taught then no religions should be taught on my tax money .Why should I support this stupid religion and not all the others .That is why we have private schools so they can teach this crap.

No. There are too many other impoetant subjects to learn. Time should not be wasted on any religon.

Isn't that course called history?

Quick, color me surprised over this before I speak and dispel the magic of the moment.

I agree! In my opinion they should be woven into the history curriculum. Instead of memorizing the dates of battles a more thoughtful look at when and where religions were created and what they believe would be more useful to attempting to understand the current state of the world.

Is that as a separate subject or just a topic in social studies?

The trouble with some 'religions' is that they don't seem to understand that religion is a general and collective term. It is NOT specific to one sect.

And as you teach them be sure to expose all the evidence they have for the reality of their god. It really won’t take long.

We should teach history so we don’t have to repeat the mistakes of the past like the left is pushing us to do today.

Evolution vs. creationism in schools came up early in this discussion. For more info than you want, search on “ten cases on creationism in schools.”

All religion's is right.

If you teach one then teach all, I prefer none