Telconi wrote:Shrillland wrote:
Once that child becomes an adult, they can spread that same ignorance to others either as teachers or as parents, which leads to a less educated society as a whole. If we want to be a strong nation, we can't allow students to say that things that have been proven false such as creationism are, in fact, true. Not in public schools, anyway, private schools can do as they will.
That's an awfully broad definition of the concept of "Harm" don't you think?
Well, actively promoting ignorance in the name of religious faith is harmful, both to the individual and to society as a whole. Don't get me wrong, I have no problem with people of faith nor do I consider religion to be a form of child abuse. I do, however, have a problem with public schools, which are specifically forbidden from spreading the falsehoods of any religion, being required to accept those falsehoods as objective proven facts just because a student's parents or pastor says so.
