Would you ask a chef for medical advice? Would you ask a doctor for cooking advice? Absolutely not, unless you enjoy making uninformed decisions. So why then do people try making decisions with religious implications, without understanding different religious beliefs? People cannot make educated political and social decisions unless they understand the complexity of different religious ideologies. The government nonsensically cripples its citizens by not requiring students in secondary school to pursue religious studies. Thus, in everyone’s best interest, the government should mandate the teaching of religious studies in public schools.
The United States aims, through schooling, to produce a well educate citizenship for the benefit of the nation. However, they fail to educate their citizens in a crucial area, religion. Religion shapes not just individuals, but world cultures and entire countries. The crisis surrounding the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria emerged out of religious ideology. The citizens and leaders of the United States cannot make well informed decisions if schools fail to educate them in the religious ideology of Islam. Likewise, within our country Christian and Catholic bias’s influence around 75% of Americans. Religious bias …show more content…
Students who question their beliefs delve into why they believe what they do. In turn, this forces them to form a deeper understanding of their own beliefs that they can better explain, apply and argue for or it forces them to take up new, more well-informed beliefs. So, by teaching religion in schools, the United States generates self-reflective citizens with beliefs grounded in rational reasoning rather than environmental coincidence. Some people already form the basis for their beliefs on rational reasoning, but educating students in religious studies will drastically increase the number of people who do
The United States aims, through schooling, to produce a well educate citizenship for the benefit of the nation. However, they fail to educate their citizens in a crucial area, religion. Religion shapes not just individuals, but world cultures and entire countries. The crisis surrounding the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria emerged out of religious ideology. The citizens and leaders of the United States cannot make well informed decisions if schools fail to educate them in the religious ideology of Islam. Likewise, within our country Christian and Catholic bias’s influence around 75% of Americans. Religious bias …show more content…
Students who question their beliefs delve into why they believe what they do. In turn, this forces them to form a deeper understanding of their own beliefs that they can better explain, apply and argue for or it forces them to take up new, more well-informed beliefs. So, by teaching religion in schools, the United States generates self-reflective citizens with beliefs grounded in rational reasoning rather than environmental coincidence. Some people already form the basis for their beliefs on rational reasoning, but educating students in religious studies will drastically increase the number of people who do