To what extent can a society at large impose a secular view of religion to all children?
This is a very complex question which can be understood better with the following example.
In Quebec's school system, religion classes have been replaced by a course called Ethics and Religious Culture. The course deals with ethical and moral questions at large while surveying the main religions of the world without any form of religious bias.
A catholic school in Montreal just challenged the required course in courts and seems to have won its case under the ground that it is a private Catholic school.
Read here for the full story.
CBC News - Montreal - Loyola wins ethics course exemption
Personally, I fully support the new Ethics and Religious Culture course which has the advantage of making children reflect on a variety of ethical issues while gaining objective knowledge on the variety of religious view points which are likely to be found in our society.
While I understand how parents want their children to grow up according to their own religious view point, it is of my opinion that this religious legacy should be practised in the privacy of family life, not within the choice of a religiously influenced mode of school education which defies the education curriculum of society at large.
I understand many of you will think very differently and am looking forward to discover your point of view.
This is a very complex question which can be understood better with the following example.
In Quebec's school system, religion classes have been replaced by a course called Ethics and Religious Culture. The course deals with ethical and moral questions at large while surveying the main religions of the world without any form of religious bias.
A catholic school in Montreal just challenged the required course in courts and seems to have won its case under the ground that it is a private Catholic school.
Read here for the full story.
CBC News - Montreal - Loyola wins ethics course exemption
Personally, I fully support the new Ethics and Religious Culture course which has the advantage of making children reflect on a variety of ethical issues while gaining objective knowledge on the variety of religious view points which are likely to be found in our society.
While I understand how parents want their children to grow up according to their own religious view point, it is of my opinion that this religious legacy should be practised in the privacy of family life, not within the choice of a religiously influenced mode of school education which defies the education curriculum of society at large.
I understand many of you will think very differently and am looking forward to discover your point of view.