Life Liberty And The Pursuit Of Happiness Research Paper

Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Three rights that the United States Declaration of Independence mentions as unalienable rights endowed to them. Many people know these rights, many people have heard of them; what many people don’t realize is that the Declaration of Independence says “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness (United States Congress).” This document is the foundation of our country and in order to completely remove religion from schools then accurately teaching the history of our country would have to be taken out as well. Christianity is the only
Religion means any kind of religious belief such as Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Confucianism, and Atheism just to name a few. Teaching in terms of school is an authority figure providing educational lectures, homeworks, etc. to students. Public schools are schools that are available to the general public through funding provided by government programs and taxes. Moral is the distinction between right and wrong, also known as ethics. Values are relative worth or merit to each individual. Lastly, a principle is an accepted rule or
Some interpretations of the First Amendment and the idea of not establishing a religion means removing it from schools when in actuality it seems more logical that all religions be taught, not just Christianity. Just like in formal debates we shouldn’t insult our children by attempting to avoid all contact with religion and hope that they never have to address it, but instead we should present children with all the religions and what they teach allowing the child to decide for or against religions his or herself. In the ABCnews report the reporter states that a big concern for why religion shouldn’t be allowed in public schools is that many publishing companies would have to change their textbooks and some may or may not be able to be sold to some schools (2009). This was a huge factor, which if the amount of money made by a publishing company is more of a concern than the actual education, there is an issue. Laslty, you can’t take the education of religions out and still teach certain lessons in relation to religion in other classes. Each subject would have to be gone through and remove any mention of any religion in order to accurately remove religion from schools. My main claim is when people want to remove religion from schools they do not realize the gravity of how much material is actually removed, hindering the education of