Ethics And Religion Course Will Not Have Desired Effect

I take offense to something I often hear whenever a secularist mind decides to deride religion.

The government of Quebec is heading down a bad path in my opinion as it prepares in haste to ram down the throats and chalk boards of private and public schools an Ethics and religious-culture course.

The thinking, flawed of course, is that parochial schools need to be "opened" up. That "religious indoctrinization" is dangerous and prevents students from "thinking for themselves."

What a bunch of baloney.

On the flip side of the coin, will the government (which is slowly but surely imposing itself on our lives) hire true scholars intellectually equipped to deal with this sort of class? It seems to me you'll need to find people who are at ease with ethics, morals and religions of the world. Will a Catholic be forced to teach Buddhism? Where's the logic to this? Surely, credibility matters, no? Something tells me things will get confused and complicated.

I went to Catholic school. So did my friends and family. My mother had a Protestant upbringing. So did her family.

None of us possess the "evil" traits secularists claim will happen. We were taught Catholicism but we did think for ourselves. We weren't "sheep." We asked hard questions (which teachers could not answer in the public school. But a friend of mine went to private school and the conversations with Jesuit priests were illuminating according to him. They weren't close minded*)

The position postured by some claiming schools who focus on one religion are dangerous is, well, downright insulting, paternalistic and arrogant.

The government has decided to mix political correctness, rampant secularism, trampling of education rights, morals and ethics all into one misguided pot.

Like $5 a day daycare (or whatever it's at now because it's a massive problem), this idea will not end well.

Guess who will pay?

Ironically, the students.

*My own personal experiences can attest to this. I went to public elementary school and private college. The students who attended private, parochial schools like Loyola were extremely bright and worldly. They did not strike me as close minded stooges for the Vatican.