Checked my Texas municipal property taxes recently. We've dropped ISD funding by 30% over five years. Meanwhile, city police spending has surged by 25%.

So I'm paying slightly less than I did five years ago, but over $1k/year of that has simply been a transfer from teachers to cops.

Does it specify which bible?

Meanwhile, in my country, laicism is mandatory for public schools.

Project 2025 and the Heritage Foundation would like a word. Or not. They do better when no one pays attention to them.

Orange man indeed doesn't care.
It's the people whispering in his ear that are pushing their brand of Christianity(TM) to positions of power.

You have to be gullible to become an evangelical in the first place.

Evangelical Christianity has absolutely been used as a political tool for the past generation.

You can choose a ready guide in some celestial voice
If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice
You can choose from phantom fears and kindness that can kill
I will choose the path that’s clear; I will choose Freewill!

-Freewill by Rush

That second one is legitimately one of the best political cartoons I’ve see

The funny thing is, being anti religion in public schools was a Protestant thing in the 19th century US. The KKK were also very much in favor of public education without religion, and advocated for laws against private schools. Private schools were associated with Catholicism, until integration - you can see the allusion with the shadow of the mitre in the second image.

Evangelical Christians have really just been throwing a decades long fit over the fact that Black children get to go to the same school as their kids.

Out of curiosity do you have any evidence to back that claim for those raised in an environment where you have a high degree of science education? Like I know without science to explain the natural world, religion makes "sense". But as long as you have a strong knowledge base in science I'm not convinced people would be easily swayed by religion.

For example, I was raised without religion, and I've never seen much of a reason to learn about it. That being said whenever I hear someone talk about religion it sounds particularly absurd to my ears. "Sky Daddy will fix all your ills, you just need to trust in sky Daddy. Sky Daddy doesn't like it when you X." I'm sorry, what? Uh no.

No. We already know how to prevent that without teaching religion. Building a solid foundation on science, critical thinking and evidence based knowledge.

And we should let them. People can choose in what to believe in and we shouldnt disallow it. The point is secularism. Church and state should be separate. When organized religion is kept out of public schools, with time, religion slowly fades away as there is less need for it.

That's outside of scope

Except in social studies class. People should be aware of other people's religions. But each religion should be taught equally, or in proportion to how many members they have. Kids should also be able to learn why people join religions and why religions are persuasive.

Fascists

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Hypocrisy

It would be better to teach critical thinking and how to recognize logical fallacies. No need to teach one specific scam that people fall for.

If there were any valid reasons to believe a religion was true, there wouldn't be a problem with teaching it in school.

Children need to be taught religions/cults are a means to bypass their logic and reason and appeal to their emotions, usually because they want something from them.

Especially the religions/cults that have high pressure recruitment.

And remember, the only difference between a cult and a religion is scale.

Seperating science from religion is how you get religion.

No.