First Amendment Question

If religion should be protected from state encroachment, why not education?

Good question. One might argue education is organic to the state and vice versa. The state is responsible for creation of educational structure--the nuts and bolts. Or were you speaking more to the dogmatic, unchangeable fundamental facts of disciplines such as science and history, for example? More like why can the state modify historical sources of curriculum?

No. Nothing like that. Much of the reasoning for a "Separation of Church and State" is that it is dangerous to grant indoctrination power to the state. Governments have, historically, coveted the power of religion and sought to co-opt it, merging it with government. It gives the state radically more pervasive control over a population.

I'm wondering, why do we consider education any different? Hasn't it become as powerful, if not more so, as tool to control public opinion? Don't the arguments against state control of religion apply equally well to education?
Because the thread premise fails as a false comparison fallacy.

Oh, the fallacy windbag has arrived! False comparison fallacy, eh? Do you grab these at random from a list?
 

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