Letter to The Editor - Could any God worth worshipping want otherwise?

to THE AGE
     Greg Clarke is right that the direction of our religious curriculum overall should be ‘to increase religious literacy’, but this will be best done by the ‘comparative religion’ that he is unduly wary of. Children should be encouraged to learn about the ways in which people throughout history have responded to the sacred, but should not be propagandized to accept one particular viewpoint. Encouraging respect for alternative belief positions is an important way in which society maintains a climate of intellectual freedom and civil peace. Exclusivist fanaticism, whether that of a particular religion or that of atheists, should be politely disparaged.
     No matter how strongly you believe in a particular approach to religion, your children are entitled to freely make up their own minds in due course.  Could any God worth worshipping want otherwise?
NJ, Belgrave, Vic