Religious Education

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One of the factors that can influence how people interact with one another is religion. It also influences legislation, and what goes on in the world in general. 

I'm a retired teacher who taught in British schools, where religious education is the norm - education, not indoctrination. I saw it as my task to equip my students with the means to navigate the adult world. Religious education covers the what of religious beliefs, and the effect such beliefs have on believers. It also covers non-belief. Religious education should aim to help students understand the human world.

Religion also overlaps with ethnic identity, so another factor in trying to understand the world must be where this comes from - psychology and history. Thus social history and evolutionary psychology need to be brought in.

Religious fanatics may be attracted to teaching religion, so that presents a danger - that they will be driven to be partial and prejudiced, and will attempt to indoctrinate. In my opinion, the best teachers of this subject should be agnostic atheists or apatheists, and others who are tolerant of others' beliefs with no sectarian axe to grind. People like Daniel Dennett and Karen Armstrong. 

https://www.amazon.com/Breaking-Spell-Religion-Natural-Phenomenon/dp/0143038338/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1699088872&sr=1-1

https://www.amazon.com/Battle-God-Karen-Armstrong/dp/0345391691