Why can't religious study in "all" schools, even private schools, be made illegal?  ?

In every religious book ever written there is grandios, maladaptive, illogical, un-scientific, antiphysical passages that are simply lies conjured up as fantasy that is forcibly drilled into innocent children's ears to the extent that if some don't behave or respect these lies, they can at times be met with corporal punishment.  And I've witness it first hand.  My cousin was disciplined with a carpet beater and I was later told by my parents to sever my relationship with my cousin who only lived a 1/2 mile away. My parents only told me that there was no hope for him and that my mom's sister was a Jesus freak to fanatical proportions.   When they got word that my cousin was ill my mom went out to their house and with the help of my dad and some friends, they kidnapped my cousin and took him to a hospital.  One shot of penicillin was all he needed. My cousin almost died and would have died had it not been for my mom and dad.  And when my dad went to confront my uncle in law, he refused to come outside to face my dad. Instead, him and my aunt stayed inside and read bible nonsense. Now I used this Christianity example because it was truthful.  But I know that all religions parallel in this way and it should be "stopped"!  

Samwise2020-07-25T19:39:17Z

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I'm sorry to hear your personal experience with religions has been that bad. And I agree that it's bad. 
 
But it's not representative of most religious beliefs and practices. And you've failed to consider the consequence: without beliefs--that is, working assumptions to deal with cases in which the truth cannot be proven--there is no basis at all for judging for ourselves what is right and what is wrong. 
 
You yourself evidently hold such beliefs, or you wouldn't have written as you did. And although I've got a lifelong background in one religion (and some exposure to others), your beliefs aren't that much different from mine. The sort of crap "religious" behavior you've described seems just as wrong and stupid to me as it does to you. 
 
But that is our belief. We can't prove it. And if any one set of beliefs, even ours, is imposed on everyone else, then nobody is free to think for themselves and reach a better belief system. What you propose would merely impose a different orthodoxy, which might not refer to itself as "religious" but would still BE an inflexible, unthinking belief system forced on others. 
 
I'm not against stopping the sort of crap you describe. But in the long run, it cannot be stopped by force; it can only be stopped by persuading people to think for themselves, and choose something better. No form of totalitarianism is improved by the awfulness of whatever it picks to oppose, and in fact most totalitarian regimes do their best to invent more awful descriptions of their opposition, as a basic exercise of propaganda.

Paul2020-07-27T04:02:02Z

That's why private schools are called "private". They don't receive funding from government sources, and therefore are not subject to government control. And students in private schools consistently receive far more scholarships to leading colleges than graduates from public schools.

Anonymous2020-07-26T04:31:22Z

In extreme cases, such as this, deprogrammers are called in.

?2020-07-25T18:15:56Z

Because that's what happens in fascist and communist States. If you want that kind of oppression you should move to China. 

JJ2020-07-25T18:02:17Z

Because of the First Amendment. It is literally the first sentence... "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;"

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