Posted: Feb 01, 2015 12:05 pm
Darwinsbulldog wrote:OK, fighting fire with fire can sometimes help. I realise the value of back-burning. But "innoculating" people with "mild" religion is not going to stop radical religion. One can innoculate them against religion generally.
It depends upon what you mean by "religious education".
If it's an academically robust course that simply aims to teach kids what various faiths are normally about - the differences between Catholic, Orthodox and Protestant Christianity or the differences between Sunni, Shia and Sufi Islam - then I think it could be quite valuable.
If it's an attempt at indoctrination, then it has no place in a school.