The purpose of education should be to enable people to think for themselves. Useful subjects are physics and history while the most harmful is religion.
Actually have a physics degree BUT before going to university went to various Catholic schools for my primary education,... so I've taken more than a a few religion classes (even at the university where I read an English translation of the Quran for shits and giggles)
Basically I don't take religious texts as being literal,... rather I find religious text such as the Bible and Quran interesting historical documents/stories that are thousands of years old (AND which are meaningful today to 2+ billion people who are self proclaimed jews, christians AND muslims)
Sadly all too often people don't take the time or effort to ponder the moral "theological" lessons of ancient religious texts
As a kid in catholic school learned that the stations of the cross were the way illiterate people were taught an important lesson
Stations of the Cross is a series of 14 pictures or carvings portraying events in the Passion of Christ, from his condemnation by Pontius Pilate to his entombment. Prayerful meditation through these stations is a common practice during Lent and on Fridays throughout the year in a number of...
www.britannica.com
Also as kid remember watching a devil on a shoulder of a cartoon character,... basically the devil on a shoulder of a cartoon character is suppose to be a metaphor device to indicate a self destructive behavior to oneself (or perhaps others) based on the theological thoughts of St. Augustine AND St. Aquinas
Something else I learned (as a kid in catholic school),... and makes sense in terms of game theory maximizing return AND minimizing downside risks
Pascal's wager is a philosophical argument that posits that people are essentially gambling about whether or not to believe in God. The argument was developed by Blaise Pascal, a 17th century French philosopher, mathematician, physicist, and theologian.
The argument is based on the idea that people are faced with a life-defining gamble when it comes to their belief in God. Pascal's wager is based on the following assumptions:
People can choose to believe in God or not
God either exists or does not
If God exists and a person believes in God, they gain infinite happiness
If God exists and a person does not believe in God, they receive infinite suffering
If God does not exist, then whether a person believes in God or not, they receive some finite gain or loss
Another thing I learned as a physics student in a catholic high school, is the "gedanken experiment" (basically Its a German phrase meaning "thought experiment," referring to a hypothetical scenario used in science or philosophy to explore a concept or theory by reasoning through its implications without actually performing a physical experiment; essentially, an experiment conducted solely in one's mind)
Basically watch the short YouTube doodly video I posted AND you'll see an example of a "gedanken leadership experiment" that involves religion, history and current day presidential politics
