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Originally Posted by Charlatan
The main reason, that I see, for not allowing a religious teacher access to teach a lesson on world religions is their tendency to proselytize. I certainly wouldn't be happy if an attempt was made to draw my children into a religion. This is doubly true when I am in a minority.
I can only imagine the opposite to be true as well.
You would have to be able to hire some very sound teachers to teach a course on world religions. They would have to be very diplomatic and would ultimately be open to slings and arrows from every direction (e.g. Which brand of Christianity are you going to explore?).
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Agreed.
See in 4th grade we had a Jewish Rabbi, Catholic priest, and a few Christian denominational church leaders, even had a Buddhist, come to our school. Every Thursday, we would have one of these leaders talk about their religion's holidays, how their religion started, and the very basics of their religions.
It was a half hour to 45 minute "class" and to be quite honest, for me it was very educational and allowed me to talk openly to my parents about religion and to reach the beginnings of my own spirituality.
The students that didn't want to participate got an extra recess that day.
It would be harder today to allow that to happen. But I truly believe we need to do something along those lines before we all get killed in the name of some religion or non religion.