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RyukSan posted...

Whataboutism is not a good excuse

I'm honestly surprised you didn't resort to the ol' "whataboutism" defense sooner. Good for getting out of an argument, poor for strengthening your point. All your criticism applies to American history, but you don't want to address it because assuming you're sincere and consistent, it undermines your logic.

for why you think we absolutely so desperately need your religious text taught in school.

I'm an atheist. Last I checked, we don't have a religious text.

If you want to discuss the problems of American history, that's an entirely different discussion that we both agree needs fixing.

Excellent, and in like manner the problem of the proper teaching of religion is not insoluble. Now we're getting somewhere.

A problem completely separate from the idea of insisting America needs religious which no doubt will be mostly Christianity text taught in school when we already have approx 40% of the country in support of Christianity and no other religion being for forced onto children.

I really don't think teaching kids about how the Bible has influenced culture is likely to promote any positive truth value regarding Christian dogma.

At any rate, by the time the kids reach late high school, there's virtually no chance (in the United States at least) they haven't already been exposed to Christianity and most will have already decided to believe it or not. I would rather kids learn about the influence of religion in schools than from their religious parents or churches.