Personaly i belive religon should go tandem whit history while i dont belive that Religon should be considerd history they pretty much go together.

Teach about them during the apropriate time and place in history, weight should probobly be on the subject at around 6-7-8's grade when children start to express understanding and start to excsert there own identety.

Children's influence of religon do not and will never come from school good or bad, it will be from Parental guidens, in a perfect world i would not think that children should be introdused to organiced religon untill they are atleast teen's so they can for there own opinion whit out the guidence from parents.

This is ofcourse imposibul, and i would never asume to sugest the enforcment of this thing.

From waht i see over here it's not religon in itself that is a problem, it's right wing exstreamist Cristian groups that want cristian teachings in school, they probobly would not like is islam and Hindu was given as much attention as cristianity, as now nighter is given any attention.

Myself i belive that Religon is an important lesson learnd in socialogy, history, etics and morality it's not everything... but it's something very interesting that learn, and for peopel who might find the ideas of budda, Jesus or Muhamed should be given the chance to know what they where talking about and find out if it belong in their world.

I do NOT belive that Private schools that are based on a religus fait is a good idea... that is plain stupid, i do not mean to offend any one but putting a child in school that teach only relion is dumb in any part of the world, Arab, Amerikan or Swedich and we found out that the bad way a fea years ago where muslim privat schools proved to be ignoring swedich child laws and teaching laws, not to mention that a school based on a religon would not be able to be objectiv of things that when aginest the religus practis.

I would LOVE to hear a devoted teacher who belived in the word of the bible or Koran teach about Evolotion and the age of the earth.

Children need to have a place where they can think free, on EVERY subject whit out teachers hampering their ideas, but still guided to learn what we know to be true, they need to learn about both the physical work of science, as well as the basics of the metaphysical work or religon, they need to learn why the Hindu belive in so many difrent gods, they could probobly do good in learning how closly related Islam and Cristianity is, learn alittle more about judisem.

And contrary to what cristians belive you can find peopel who do NOT belive that LOVE religon who can teach religon on an inbias level, becase you need someone who can teach... not preach a religon.

Just becase i dont belive, peopel who do tend to belive i think they are stupid, and sadly most of the time that work in revers as well.

Religon is a state of mind, beliving in something, we all belive in things religon is just an organasation of peopel beliving in the same thing,

just becase i do not belive in the same things, that dont meen that i activly belive that they are wrong, simply that i dont belive.

Religon is a dificult complex, my personal belife is that true religon can not excist is it's forced, if it's forced it's more enforced culture then belife... how can a person truely belife in something if he have never been given teh chanc e to belive in something ells?

Thins leadds us back to the problem whit Islam, becase today large populus of Islam is in a 'forced' belife system... you can belive either in islam and Allah... or be stoned to death... not a to big a choice i do belive.

These peopel do not 'belive' becase they 'BELIVE' but becase beliving is the only thing they have ever known, it's there culture to belive.

This mirrors the dark age of europ, you belived or you where burnt.

Today we are alittle more open, but it's important that we grab and hold on to the freedom to belive, but freedom to belive do not give teh freedom to force other to belive like they do.

I'm sure noting of that made much sence but hey i'm swedich... what do we know?