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CMV: Religion is doing more harm then good ans the best way to solve this is by making it mandatory to have philosophy/critical thinking classes in schools.

Justification for the first part of the title: 

1. Mainstream religions base their views on ancient texts that are not relevant in today's society. This leads to outdated and barbaric practices like child marriage, genital mutilation, corrective rape, conversion therapy and in extreme cases, terrorism.


2. Religions curbs a person's reasoning abilities which lead to deliberate ignorance. Religious people can't (or won't) consider an alternative explanation for the "proofs" of god, instead choosing to accept these as facts and basing their entire world view off of it.


3. Religion promotes shame, especially sexual shame, and especially towards women. (ie. Hinduism depicting menstruating women as impure and Islam depicting women who don't cover their hair as shameless and undignified). This promotes the policing of women's bodies, victim blaming and sexual ignorance.


4. Going off the 3rd point, religion actively promotes ignorance. By labelling everything as "karma" or "god's will" or "god's test", religious people end up ignoring real world problems, fail to hold people accountable, and diminish real effort by real people as "god's gift/blessing". 


These are all I can think of for now.

Now, on to the second part of the title, why I think schools should have philosophy/critical thinking classes:

It promotes critical thinking at a young age, which is not only important in recognising religion for what it is (a scam) but also for daily life. I see people talk about teaching kids taxes and shit but I'll be honest, at that age, I was more so having an existential crisis and just starting to question the world around me but I also had a short attention span and wasn't interested in adulty shit like taxes. School children are at an age where they are naturally curious about their surroundings and looking for answers, and what better way to help them find those answers, but by equipping them with the tools needed to find those? 

It's a much better way compared to force existing opinions on them because it would help them reach their own conclusions, and much more reasonable ones compared to feeding them lies/biased opinions. 
Teaching them about biasses, how to argue, and how to think, will enrich their lives, plus they will pay attention (especially if the teaching is done right) because they are already trying to look for those answers themselves. 

It will also promote kindness, humbleness and open mindedness far more then religions would because they will be able to comprehend the things that actually matter in this world rather then do good things because of some invisible dude in the sky who "loves" them but will put them in hell if they go against his words. They won't equate morality with god, but instead, recognise morality as something far more complex and fluid, which allows them to look at world issues in a mature way.

Ps. I'm basing my knowledge of philosophy classes on the crash course playlist for philosophy on YouTube. If I'm wrong in any way, please do let me know.

I will not be responding to rude comments. Please interact civilly.

Edit: sorry for the spelling mistake in the title lol. And the spelling mistakes throughout this post. English isn't my first language. It's funny how people pay more attention to spelling rather than the content of it.
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The fundamentals of philosophy are based on texts even more ancient than the ones used in the "mainstream" religions, and written by historical figures touting ideas just as problematic once you get to the same fringe where religion is problematic.

Also, most students already take a version of critical thinking and philosophy somewhere in school.  Generally in high school, even if not totally by name.  And there's no reason to believe that philosophy classes would curb religious/spiritual belief or that the two are incongruent.  Most philosophers have been religious or at the very least spiritual.