[MrB]

Whenever you address, or even think about, the philosophical questions of existance, including the existance of a deity, you are engaging in a theology.

Regardless of how the SH’s and atheists are claiming a neutral position, the desire is to TEACH THEIR THEOLOGY to kids in public schools.

[JamesP81]

Regardless of how the SH’s and atheists are claiming a neutral position, the desire is to TEACH THEIR THEOLOGY to kids in public schools.

Which is why government mandated education and the Constitution are mutually incompatible with one another. The schools, an arm of the state, wishes to impose an essentially theological idea on its students, and will use its police power to make sure it succeeds in doing so. Everyone knows that certain freedoms (such as freedom of speech) have to be curtailed in a classroom setting in order to teach anything. This is not a problem if it's a private school, since the parents have sent their children their by choice. But the state cannot Constitutionally mandate a religious teaching and use the police to enforce it. Or rather I should say that state isn't supposed to be able to do that, but in effect does.