"can no longer practice Christianity and all children are expected to learn a little about all 'religions'.
Why a problem?
I should have thought it's a necessity to understand other cultures and religions, especially in a multicultural society.
As a fully committed (though totally inactive) atheist, I really don't have any religion being taught as separate philosophies in schools as long as it is in the context of all religions and not that one is "the true religion and all others are "wrong" and practiced by "sinners", which has been the case up to now.
It would be a shame to lose all those lovely folk-tales - unfortunately, the beutiful language has been naused-up by the facile adaptation in the New English Bible (shudder)
Religion should be an guide to how we treat one another rather than a rigidly drawn up and compulsarily applied set of rules imposed on us from childhood.
Religion is the result of primitive man's attempts to explain the world around him/her - much of it has been overtaken by science.
It seems ludicrous to me that, in this day and age people should have to fight for the right to teach children how old The Grand Canyon is because it runs counter to the teachings of the Bible.
Religion has become one of the world's major problems because of the misuse it has been put to, by politicians and churchmen alike
Jim Carroll