Should Atheism Be Taught in School?

Originally posted by spyder550
Christians just cant understand the no belief in religion has to be filled by something. Atheists are just fine with the concept of no religion or being with supreme power.

I know. That's really kind of annoying.

Along with "Atheists will find God when they face death". Uh No!

Schools should not teach any God believe. There is no counter.

"ists and isms" yuck!

Schools... education.... a private school may solve this "atheist" school issue. It's all part of history and how many schools teach any history worth learning? Especially public schools. I've read some posts on this thread which somehow consider "Atheist" a scientific thing lol.. my o my ... since when?

Atheism is a philosophy and a basic non valid philosophy at that, Agnosticism is the best a self declared atheist can hope for and still hold a valid philosophy. One might claim it's a matter of freewill, and it is, fair enough. Freewill permits anyone to choose to deny a God or even deny Freewill! lol... Yet it's still not valid. Or, as many declare, "people believe what they want to believe".

That can certainly be taught in schools.. in a sense. But claiming "Science" fosters "Atheism" is another outright fallacy. Science has NOTHING to do with Atheism. Atheism is a Philosophy.

There is no way history can be taught in ANY school worth it's salt, without teaching religions, including the beliefs and history of religions. Yet that has been exactly what's been going on anyway.. a sort of half-way measure of history, skipping most of history and leaving students with a very ignorant view of not only history, but the present.

The Malthusian and Darwinian schools and groups, along with Eugenics movements and history, SHOULD be part of teaching, school and history. Students would be done well by, if they are shown that there are philosophies that consider them NOTHING but animals as well as deserving to be treated as Men treat animals...

The National Socialists Workers Party in Germany got some "eugenics" exposure in maybe... a day or two... of history class? Yet the eugenic laws in Germany were taken directly from the U.S.A. eugenic laws. ( for example ) 37 States in the U.S. had FORCED Sterilization laws. Eugenics was a major policy in the U.S.

So one might imagine teaching "Atheism" in schools could involve much that hasn't been taught, but one might also expect a very censored and shallow "Atheist" history being offered, just as is done with most education... just enough to cause ignorance and an Orwellian understanding of history, religion, or any ist and ism.

What a complete waste of money, I would be ashamed that taxpayers money would be used to fund that.
There is nothing to teach.
This humanist wave in the UK of late are becoming awfully annoying.

reply to post by Serafine


Thank you for your post, it added a few things for me to ponder about.

Starred !

Depends on what you mean by taught. Sure, tell the student what atheism is, but don't attempt to shove it down their throat. I'm against creationism being taught, but I'm not going to push for atheism to be widely taught and be hypocritical.