On 11 August 2011 03:09, Charles Haynes <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 3:36 AM, Kiran K Karthikeyan > <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 10 August 2011 03:52, Charles Haynes <[email protected]> > wrote: > > >> Religionists are welcome to teach their children whatever they please. > > > This breaks the idea of a secular society. > > How if it is is in addition to whatever standards are mandated by the > government? "You can teach whatever you want, but we require teaching > of the following." You are welcome to tell your children that what the > government is teaching is wrong, but the government still teaches it. > Exactly, and if you apply the same model to various scenarios, you would pretty much get what I prescribed earlier. Essentially, the government creates laws, mandatory school curricula, divorce laws etc. etc. in complete ignorance of what any religion or religious establishment prescribes. You are free to practice any religion, hold any belief etc. in your own head and participate in any religious activity as long as you don't break any law. That includes sending kids to school to be lectured on the rationale behind what their loony family calls blasphemy. Now this would be secularism, and I'm also fairly certain there isn't a country which practices it. Kiran
