Is this wise to take away the name of God from our school teachings?

1) It assumes the existence of the christian God. Not everyone believes in your god, and some dont believe in any god at all.

2) Question 2 is worded, once again, to assume the existance of a god, and that anyone who is not a christian is just 'ignoring' that god. This also is not true

3) The next two questions show a very poor understanding of the concept of evolution. Please don't refer to evolution without doing some research first. By research I mean looking at reliable scientific sources for an explanation of the theory of evolution. Don't just swallow what people might say at church- they are likely as not just as misunderstanding of the theory.

Please edit your poll to make it a little more balanced.

Thank you

I have to agree with everything pete says. Evolution is accepted by many people - in fact the vast majority throughout the world, while a small minority believe in the judeo/christian/islamic god. There are many more who believe in different gods or no god(s) at all.

That is not to say evolution denies the existance of a god or gods, it's an explanation for how species come about, which has been peer reviewed, subjected to objective scientific studies and legal trials and has held true over all the years since Darwin first published 'Origin of the Species'

Even within the minority religion of christianity, creationism is believed by a small minority of christians - mainly in the US of A with an even smaller minority believing in young earth creationism. It is just one of the many things the christian right has in common with fundamental islamists (along with the subjugation of women, a downer on sex and a ridiculous belief that they, and only they have got the right to determine the meaning of books written in a savage and backward time which are full of contradictions - I'm talking of the bible and the koran here).

Although I'm a humanist, given the choice, if I had to take it, I'd prefer to believe in a god who created an evolving, ever developing world rather than a god who created a stagnating, undeveloping one. Wouldn't you?

As it is I happen not to believe in any god or in any afterlife (heaven or hell) and as such I believe we have to live this one life we have to the best of our ability in cooperation and partnership with our fellow humans. I also believe that would make for a better world than the one where we are all intent on blowing each other up in different ways because we believe differently in the same god.

Christianity is faith, not science. It should only be taught in the parameters of teaching about what types of things people believe in, not as either science or a code of ethics/morals that everyone has to follow. I will continue to fight efforts to infuse Christianity into the public school system. If people wish to send their kids to a Christian private school, they have every right to do so, but I pay taxes too, and I really don't wish to fund any Christian institution myself.

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion"-first part of the first amendment to our constitution.

I pretty much agree with the 2 previous posts, although I have made biased polls myself and don't have much of a problem with people doing that as long as they don't delete or alter our messages to them

I agree with totoro, in that religion should be taught in schools but it should be all religions that are taught and not just one.

Young people should be taught to understand both the full range of religions worshiped around the world and the alternatives to religion such as agnosticism, atheism and humanism. If they then want to follow one particular faith, they do so with their eyes open, having weighed up all the fact, pros and cons.

There is no such thing as a christian, muslim, jewish, humanist, parsee child. There are only children who are brought up by christian, muslim, jewish, humanist, parsee parents who may indoctrinate that child - but the child was born pure, clean, untainted by any doctrine. If only we could just let them know the facts (all the facts) and let them decide for themselves, the world might just be a better place where fundamentalists don't blow up buildings or murder doctors for refering their patients for abortions, or stone women for having been raped while the rapist is allowed to walk free.

I agree with essentially everything above, so I won't repeat any of it.

I will, however, say that Question 3 made me laugh. The poll creator doesn't even realize that belief in something by blind faith and in spite of external evidence is not something that they should be accusing secularists of. Unless they wish to be seen as hypocritical.