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Presenting religious education as an alternative to mainstream secular education ignores the fact that most of the religious teachings are false. Teaching things that are false is not education. If you want to call it education, then it's poor education.


I do not know how to describe this post as anything other than anti-religious bigotry not tolerated on Hacker News.


Human rights are also false. Human dignity is false. Morality is false. If we’re only going to teach things that are true there’s not going to be much philosophical content anywhere.




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