There has been an ongoing fight in the U.S. between fundamentalist religious groups and secularists about what should or shouldn't be taught in public schools concerning evolution and creationism.
There's a real heat to this debate.
Why is that?
The answer is government. It is government that forces people in society to fund public schools and compels children to attend. Were it not for this group of people sanctioned with the right to the initiation of force, there would be little reason for a fight on this subject. Parents who would want creationism taught to their kids would simply choose schools that offer it. Parents who wish to avoid having fantasies rendered as truth would take them to a school that teaches science.
This fight is a battle to have the government point guns at their opponents in order to force them to do things their way.
Take any controversial subject where government is involved. Remove the guns (government) and see if there's anything left to fight about.
This is the state of our society. Think about it for a while. Is this the best way to organize a society -- to give a group within it the right to point guns at others? Sure, the Constitution is the "rule book" that was given to them. Just look how effective that's been.
They gave them guns, remember?
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My parents would have taken me to the fantasy school, and I would have been miserable.
The root problem is parenthood itself. Children are not the property of those who gave birth to them. They have the right to choose their own religion and education, and to live independently, under an appropriate level of government supervision, but only as needed. Guardianship is appropriate only for the severely mentally handicapped.
Parents are the problem. They can prevent developmental progress in a child.
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