Well this topic is about freedom of knowledge and religion so if you want to talk about the benefits of why kids should know about things then yes. If you want to expand on what each individual thing is, please dont. Wait till another topic more long those lines.

this is very true, morals and values aren't just of a religous base but of what environment one has grown up in.

With all of these posting rules and the week ban hanging over our heads without warning, any poster that would dare take your offer would be walking so carefully on eggshells that it would negate the real purpose of this topic. Just spill it sir. You're pissed at administration and administration is pissed at you. A lot got said behind closed doors, and you happened to spill some into our lovely forums haphazardly. This is what? A compromise for you? Tell me, does this all apply to your topic only or can we expect week bans if we're anything but peachy to eachother all around the forums? You guys knock off topics for absolutely no reason. We've come to expect that anything even remotely controversial will be sperlunked if it even remotely rubs a mod the wrong way. Just lock this thread sir. It's a disaster waiting to happen.

Dude... religion gets you into the favorable afterlife vs the one with all the pain and torment forever...

If that ain't worth a few bucks... what is?

ok, to "hell" with it then.

What do people think about faith schools? personally i think theyre bad for society, they encourage segregation which is bad, if children are allowed to mix with people from different religous backgrounds it will encourage them to question there own faith and make them more tolerant to other religions.

P.S. if a mod objects to this post, please let me know why before banning me.

I don't mind it one bit. It keeps the sane kids in public school.

Along with this is the right to express one's knowledge and understanding without one's thoughts to be considered bigotry or hatred towards others.

I disagree with this sentence. Some things just are hate and bigotry, no matter how you candy coat it or what book it comes from. If somebody says that a certain group of people are inherently evil or wrong, or abominations based on things beyond their control (Blacks, jews, gays, Americans, whoever), then yes I'm going to call them out on that. Because those thoughts lead to actions and those actions hurt people that don't deserve it.

Why shouldn't they be called out on it? Because they might be offended that I think they are grossly wrong in their belief that black people aren't really human? Because I might hurt their feelings if I say that it's disgusting that they think gay people should have to go into special camps to brainwash them into being heterosexual? "Ah, but what's the harm in some different opinions?" Because then that first guy goes out and lynches a "porch monkey" for dating a white woman, and the second guy tries desperately to prevent homosexuals from having the same rights as anyone else. I guess I wouldn't want to offend those people and not give arbitrary respect to dehumanizing beliefs just because they think that's the way it should be.

Though I agree, Knowledge and religion should be free. Governments can't afford to make school free, but the information age is helping to spread knowledge worldwide for almost free. Religion should be a path to spirituality and a view of something larger than ourselves rather than another money making scheme, or arbitrary dogma to enforce on the masses.

Is that banworthy?

please define "sane" in this context. by public school what do you mean? - state funded or private?

nope, this is a topic that I tried to get to be all nice and free of worry. I didnt compromise anything. I just said what I was doing and that was that.

I believe "faith" schools brainwash children. I do not believe brainwashed children are sane. I should be more clear though as there are still nutjobs in public schools too, both state funded and private.

By the way, why haven't we all received our bans yet? I'm sure someone in this world was offended by what we've all said so far.