I don’t think it makes much difference if religion is taught in the schools or not. However, I object to our children being taught humanism along with the idea that religion is not intellectual.
A world that believes that God can be put into a different compartment from other areas of living, for instance our government and jobs, is too worldly to be able to teach about the forces in our world relating to creation and God.
Children learn more by the media, and the values they see around them and at home. What is taught in the schools is more a reflection of those than a cause.
In high school my daughter took a course on critical thinking, based completely on worldly reasoning without any knowledge of the spiritual. This influenced her so that for years she looked at bible teaching without any God thinking in her reasoning. When she did understand scripture again, it was with greater depth.
