So why do you want to just replace one poison with another? Or is it just that you want your brand of poison to win?
Me? I'd rather have no poison at all. Remove the indoctrination, not just replace it with another.
Poison? You have a very weird notion of it.
I would view it as viewing history. A extra cultural understanding. Right now it is for English Language Arts and Reading. Why should it not be taught at least in part in an educational setting? It is one of biggest narratives that shaped world history, specifically Western Civilization. Trying to discard it more or less erodes Western Civilization and its ideas.
If you say learning it at all is indoctrination, I would agree with you, as the same could be said about learning literally any ideology that makes a country's society continue ticking along.
I am of John Adams belief, where a Republic simply cannot work without a generally religious society, or at least a majority following the same morals.
"Because We have no Government armed with Power capable of contending with human Passions unbridled by morality and Religion. Avarice, Ambition, Revenge or Gallantry, would break the strongest Cords of our Constitution as a Whale goes through a Net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious People. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."
In other words, humans are flawed and in a Republic form of governance, they need a strong moral code. I believe without at least a cultural understanding being somewhat permeated through society, then don't expect the society to last too long after it loses its most basic common values. Even Richard Dawkins now counts himself as a Cultural Christian and viewed the current direction of society going in the wrong direction.
Agnosticism and Atheism leaves room for other ideologies. I would at least like one of those ideologies to be Cultural Christianity, so they view themselves having something in common with actual true religious Christians.
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