Posted: Aug 17, 2013 12:36 pm
Shrunk wrote:orpheus wrote:Whatever the label, I certainly think it should be taught. Indoctrination — no. Education — yes, absolutely. Any school curriculum that doesn't teach about such a huge and omnipresent force in world history, politics, art, literature and philosophy is woefully deficient. You can't really understand much of the world without understanding something of the various religions, their tenets, their places in history, their influences and interactions, etc.
Which, I think, is an argument against separating religion off into a subject of its own. If you cover all of those other topics you list adequately, you must also be discussing the role that religion has had in them, so it's covered there.
Well, since all of these subjects are intertwined, you could say the same about any of them. In fact, by that reasoning you could argue that they all should come under one heading. Obviously that's impractical, and more importantly, just because topics are intertwined does not erase their identity as separate topics. I think religion is the same.