BellyDancer asked:


If the US requires there to be a “separation of church and state” and scientology is now a religion, why is the beliefs associated with it allowed to be taught in public schools, but beliefs of other religions is not allowed to be mentioned whatsoever in public school? Is this not favoring one religion over another, thus, in a sense, forcing a religion on a person indirectly?

12 Responses to “Why is the religion of scientology allowed to be taught in public schools?”

1. madjer21755 on July 30th, 2008 10:38 am

   Where is this occurring, any references?

   Maybe it’s in the science fiction section.

2. WellTraveledProg on August 1st, 2008 11:26 am

   I think you’re confusing “science” with “scientology” — the two have nothing to do with each other. Science is not a religion, and scientology is not science. As far as I know, no public schools are teaching scientology.

3. Elana on August 3rd, 2008 4:58 am

   As far as I know, Scientology, as a discipline, is NOT allowed to
   be taught. There are, of course, some concepts that are
   actually founded in science and those can be taught … but as
   a discipline, no.

4. jerofjungle on August 6th, 2008 8:34 am

   I haven’t heard about this. Where is that being taught? Last I heard Scientology is a secretive religion. I do not think any religion should be taught in schools but children should be allowed to pray and recite the Pledge.

5. Enterrador on August 6th, 2008 10:49 am

   I have not heard of Scientology being specifically taught at schools. Where do you live.

6. sarcastro1976 on August 8th, 2008 1:22 am

   Scientology is a (bogus) religion.
   Science isn’t a religion. Get them straight.

7. vjatigerrr on August 8th, 2008 11:48 am

   maybe the same reason the religion of evolution humanisim is taught in schools but the Truth of Christ is not taught and even banned.

8. Phoenix on August 11th, 2008 5:43 am

   You’d have to give an example of scientology taught in schools…

9. ZER0 C00L on August 11th, 2008 11:13 am

   I haven’t heard of this occuring, but if you’ve read an article about it, I’d love to get a link from you. No, really, I really would. If you can cite ANY sources, please do. I’d love to read about it.

10. Manny on August 13th, 2008 5:48 pm

    could you possibly cite a specific case of this happening?

    I’m thinking you are misunderstanding something.

11. abqdan on August 16th, 2008 8:31 pm

    Not happening anywhere I know of. Schools can teach comparitive religions – that’s the general beliefs and history of world religions without emphasizing a particular one – but they can’t teach a religious class without running fowl of all kinds of interest groups – ACLU and others. So I think you are mistaken.

    Note on Scientology – this is a pay-per-lesson religion, and would not be taught for free anywhere. To learn about thetans (the aliens Scientologists think inhabit our bodies) you have to pay a lot of money, and buy a machine that ‘audits’ you (tells you how many thetans you have). All this mumbo-jumbo is covered by copyrights that are strictly enforced.

12. Shannon F on August 18th, 2008 12:33 am

    There are Scientology schools, where most kids who were born into it go, but I have never heard of it being taught in public school. You wouldn’t attend these schools unless you were a Scientologist though, thankfully. Scientology has kind of seeped into many aspects of society by way of a number of front groups that do various things for the community, like Narconon and the like. These groups do not advertise that they are really Scientologists, so it is very possible that if you heard that Scientology was being taught in ____ school, it’s definitely run by Scientologists.