I was born into an English family which is vaguely mixed with Christian and Agnostic members. I myself found I was an atheist somewhere in my preteen years which was about the time I moved to the U.S. and became a part of the U.S. Education system and a notable difference between the British and American Education system is religious education or the lack of it in the U.S.

Religious education in the UK was started by the Church of England as an attempt at indoctrination but it backfired in a big way. Kids where taught ideas and viewpoints from different religions and even Atheism. It covered multiple areas of theology and many areas of Philosophy and Ethics. I've recently moved back and I'm taking a religious education course at community college now simply because I find it interesting.

My question would be do you think European style religious education should become a part of the U.S. Curriculum? And what kind of affect do you think it would have? From what I've seen the only religious education Americans seemed to get where from there parents and churches. I think this doesn't allow the kids to have an open mind and see other religious viewpoints. I think religious education is a very large reason that Britain's population is a lot more atheist and agnostic than the USA's