"I am amused at BillD's suggestion of teaching young people to think. My experience with organized religion is that that is exactly what some religions are trying to avoid."

*grin*...well, yes...but what is the alternative...telling them it is OK to not think rationally? I never said it would be easy.
With care, it IS possible to teach the basic principles of thinking without any specific references to any organized religion, so that other positions are at least understood...and it is even possible to BE a rational thinker and still be a member of a religion....but I do claim that it is NOT possible to be a rational thinker and maintain that your form of religion is the only correct and 'reasonable' one. Splitting hairs? maybe...but hairs sometimes need splitting.