76% of Britons are not religious

[Seece]

Dr.Grass said:

Seece said:

I didn't mind it actually, I thought it utterly pointless so it was kinda like a free lesson. Most of my family were religious at the time and I never had anything against it (religion I mean)

Now though, I still believe it's utterly pointless and should be scraped in favour of teaching kids about finances and such, stuff kids need to knows these days growing up, rather than religion which the majority couldn't give a hoot about.

You didn't have anything against a philosophy that tought that you were condemned to hell forever?

 

Wow, I'm impressed with your tolerance

 

Seriously though, I disagree with you. I know I am in the vast minority (especially amongst the more educated folk), but I still maintain that a proper teaching of (almost any) religion is ultimately beneficial. Whether the student accepts it or not.

I didn't take any notice of it, nobody did, we just messed around and took it as a free class!

The only thing beneficial about it is learning about morals, which can be done without learning about religion, take away that and the cons started to outweigh the pros, like being judgemental and pigeonholing groups of people. Kids (gay ones specifically) definitely don't need to hear about being condemed to hell or whatever for being gay.

Religious people would disagree, I think educated people and the majority agree it's more beneficial to teach something that is actually, going to help and affect their lives in a good way.