...but what I've seen in places with required religious education (e.g. a lot of Western Europe) is that the instruction seems to mostly inoculate people against religion--somehow being taught religion by someone who doesn't really believe it seems to lead to a similar response among students. It also seems--your average person teaching is going to be theologically liberal--to induce a huge number of misconceptions about what the Gospel really means. So it could be really counterproductive in a place with as many good "fundagelical" churches as Texas.
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...but what I've seen in places with required religious education (e.g. a lot of Western Europe) is that the instruction seems to mostly inoculate people against religion--somehow being taught religion by someone who doesn't really believe it seems to lead to a similar response among students. It also seems--your average person teaching is going to be theologically liberal--to induce a huge number of misconceptions about what the Gospel really means. So it could be really counterproductive in a place with as many good "fundagelical" churches as Texas.
Aspiring to be a stick in the mud.