Quote Originally Posted by thir View Post
But I think that education is good in that it releases the strangle-hold of dogmatic religion on many, leaving whatever religion people choose to have optional. I mean, their own choice and decision.
This is basically what I have been saying all along. Learning about how religions work, especially the dogmatic ones, will tend to turn people away from such religions. Not from faith, necessarily, but certainly from the harsh, mind-warping effects of those religions. It's one reason they start teaching children early, so that they grow up believing before they have a chance to learn whether what they believe is actually true or not.