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Well, that article already seems extremely anti-theistic, but this is what I say: Some religious beliefs, such as that medical treatments like blood transfusions are bad, I don't know how any person could believe that, and I'm really certain that there is no logical reasoning behind it, or at least there isn't any in the Christian faith. That is just basic keeping your kids safe and healthy. And, for other beliefs such as Creationism, I think it would be utterly stupid to have that considered child abuse, because then eventually teaching [i]any[/i] religious beliefs at all would be considered child abuse, more bans, and eventually there will be no more freedom of religion. And besides, at least in the USA, religion is not taught in schools; the public schools teach secular curriculum, and the religious stuff is taught by churches and parents. Of course I'm kind of uncomfortable with over-extreme religious zealotry in many cases, so I wouldn't mind discouraging some of the more extreme and immoral religious beliefs, but let the schools teach the "proper education" and let the parents teach religion and take their children to church. Prohibiting that would be a step backwards for individual rights and a step forward for more government oppression.
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  • Christian scientists look them up. That being said I'm good friends with one and he's fine. I don't 100% get it but I'm not trying to shove Tylenol down his throat calling him stupid. Let people believe what they want.

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  • Can you believe it, six people replied to my post and every one of them agreed with me and was nice in their arguments :D But exactly: let the government and public schools teach secular, religiously neutral stuff, and let parents and churches teach religion. Extremist stuff should be discouraged, maybe monitored in super severe cases, but if parents and churches are good about it all, then nothing should be a problem.

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  • Your right the over extreme religious aspects shouldn't be taught but schools should still show the religious side of the argument and even if those kids don't become religious then you are still exposing the kids to great culture

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  • If you present a religious side of an argument it should be in the context of learning about that particular religion. Not in the context of learning scientific concepts.

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  • I actually agree with you there, it should not be considered science concepts, but rather history. Science concepts make up ideas and try to find evidence for it. History records actual events.

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  • Correct. So if you wanted to say this group of people thought that life began this way because of their beliefs, and this group thought this because of their beliefs, that's fine.

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  • Well said.

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