@HoraceGreenley: Peekaboo, you can contact me in a message if you want. I did not see your comment.

@ShortHair: No but i don't have a problem with them being an elective.

@katielass: You underestimate the number of religions in the world. The major six is the limit of most schoolagers attention span.

@malizz: No I don't underestimate anything. When we teach our kids history we don't cover every last thing that happened. We cover the important things that changed the course of history. Well, these days evidently they don't even teach that but the point is, religion classes, and they do still exist, do not teach every religion, they teach about the most common ones.

@Balint81: Do you think it should be?

@ShortHair: it doesn't really affect how people think as adults..parents choice until 16,kids choice after that. I was being taught religion 3 classes a week. Today,I couldn't give a rat's ass about it

@Ryozo: I agree. It's a huge part of the human race, so it should be understood.

@malizz: Agreed. But Dawkins motives are not pure.

@FreeSpirit1: I think he made a good point about reading literature. It helps to have at least a basic understanding of religion.