HarryW: It is tuff to teach religion without showing bias. That is my main reason for objecting to teaching it in a government run institution.

At least in a religious school, you know what the bias is.

Oddly enough, I went to a Quaker school for grades 9 thru 12, and took a comparative religion course run by a very devout Roman Catholic (Quaker schools are surprisingly liberal). He compared every religion with Catholicism. While he was not deliberately or obviously biased, there was more than a subtle suggestion that Catholic theology was a true standard by which other religions should be judged. I wonder what comparative religion would be like if taught by a Moslem.

Perhaps religion should be taught by atheists. If given the chance to teach a course, I might manage to unconvert a few people. I would not be biased in favor of any organized religion, although I might have a few good words to say about the Quakers (Society of Friends). I have not had anybody try to save me recently, or I might have said unbrainwash instead of unconvert.