Quote Originally Posted by Moonraker View Post
We are talking study here I assume. If I study the communist manefesto at school am I being taught to be a communist.

I think religion should be a compulsory subject at early age. That is not to say it is not studied like bible classes at a church. Let the church do it's job (faith) and the school its (education). But since religion plays such a big part in everyday life (hey its 50% of the chat forbidden topics here) then it makes sense that kids should know about it, especially in these troubled times where there is a lot of misunderstanding and animosity between islam and christianity.

I read the Quaran whilst in Saudi and discussed many of the more controversial areas with arabs. This knowledge has served me well in my dealings with muslims and opinions on the current problesm in the middle east.
I understand what you are saying, my question was should Studing the Bible in Public School be Mandated, be required, your reading the Bible, Quaran, was done I assume at your leasure, and NOT made manditory by the school you were in, my question to you is, Why should Tax Payers, who pay for education in Public Schools, be made to pay for and their children REQUIRED in Public Schools to study the Bible, more so if they are not Christian??
The United State Constition specificly prohbits, the Governement of this country, at the Federal, State or LOcal Level from advocating 1 Religion over another, Public Schools are paid for by the Federal, States and Local Governemnt, thus if Bible Study is mandated, required in ALL public schools, Taxpayer money is paying for it, this violates seperation of Church and State, this is the Goverment favoring 1 Religion over another which is UnConstitutional, that is my point
I am not Christian, I do not want my tax dollars paying for mandated Bible Studies in my Public Schools, that is what Private, Porocial Schools are designed for among other things