A couple of those aren't bad ideas. For instance, what possible use is there for teaching superstitious bullshit like "god" in schools or governments?
If we had less effort to believe things without evidence, we'd probably have a much better handle on COVID, etc.
Talk about brain-washed. That's the real brain-washing. Belief in easter-bunny level bullshit.
Originally Posted by Gaijin
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Edgy anti-theism aside, I agree on the premise that the governments of these United States should have no "state religion" and that public schools have no right to force a child into worship. Pray if you want to, but you have no right to make someone else do it, nor do you have the right to stop someone from praying unless they're causing physical harm to someone.
That being said, I think the study of religions is invaluable, as religion is and was the foundation of many societies and cultures, and vice versa. One can get a lot of insight on how people of different cultures think by doing so.
I think the problem is less of the classical "they're taking god out of schools" pearl clutching, and more of the lack of parents and grandparents being actively involved in their child's upbringing, and at leaving the cultural lessons to the schools.
The biggest example of this is all the "woke" bullshit and Baskin-Robbins style 31 genders idiocy. They're not learning this at home, they're learning it in the classroom and online. And since their among their peers when they do it, they're more likely to adopt it through passive or aggressive peer pressure and a desire to be unique.
The degenerate weirdness we see more and more every day is a symptom of comfortable living. "Victim Mentality" is a real thing, not necessarily born of laziness or an unwillingness to accept responsibility, but born from the monkey-brained sense of doom that Life "should" be hard, and "should" be a struggle, and in the absence of a real one, they create boogeymen to struggle against. Civilizations and major population centers that get too comfortable are breeding grounds for this. It happened with Babylon, Greece, Rome, the Ottoman Empire, the British Empire, Wehrmacht Germany, and now it's our problem.