Ive been to places where they can spend a lifetime learning their own personal religions. They make careers out of it. They make idiots out of the curious. As far as Im concerned its like any other schooling, if Im bad at math, and I am, I feel stupid asking a question to the obvious answer. I wouldnt want to spend every Sunday for the rest of my life just learning these things, although Id rather learn non-religious things if I had to go to a sunday school. My opinion of the topic's subject matter is, all people of different beliefs dont have a choice, they have to accept each other. I feel that it would be too uncomfortable to be around people who felt like they were being oppressed. Its a "agree to disagree" thing with science and religion. I dont know what kind of laws the scientists would make against religion's followers, but religion has made laws against scientists like Galileo and others. People got killed for heresy. Obviously, religion isnt going away anytime soon, but if laws have to be made to keep religion out of the areas of learning, then thats what has to be done, religion didnt want people knowing some things in science, I dont see science telling people they CAN NOT believe in religion or they will go to some horrible place after death. There just never was that intimidation factor that religion has always had. Simple as that.(Im not one for wordy essays. Sorry.) :)



"Here! The debate is not what I say in the opening of the thread, but what I, as well as any other participating individual has to offer up, as the thread progresses. There is no one pathway for this thread to take, but the main thrust should be on why skeptics, and religions exist side by side in the face of such misunderstandings of one another.

In true form of Mac’s request to maintain sanity to the subject. I would ask that when someone posts his/her opinions that the reader does not conflict with quotes from the post, but comment on the ideas made in the post. Being for, or against an opinion one can, in such a manner, advance the ideas unto an conclusion of some sort! Thanks"