Rules of engagement of religion

Religion goes to roots of our life. But there are things religion should not indulge with, or else religious and ethnic disharmony will wreck the society.

Governments should distance it from religious activities. Most countries have a government minister for religious affairs. Most functions starts after religious ceremonies. This favors the largest population forgetting minorities. This creates a rift among different communities.

Teaching religion should be properly regulated. Schools should be secular. Having multi religions inside a single education institution do not produce the expected result of a tolerant society. Usually children do not behave as expected. More you try to bend them more rigid they become. May be teenage hormones play a part.They likes to compete whatever way they can, even, may use religion to abuse the ones who are different. Abuse is part of their competition. So having religiously different children and advertising that they are different by making religion part of the curriculum will in the end produce unexpected results. I can remember being abused as a child by my class mates, just because we lived in a rented annex owned by a landlord of a different religion.

Children under certain age should not be taught religion except by parents. Teaching to young by seniors is always coupled with abuse that leads to produce mentally skewed children. Always parents are ignorant of the pedophile activities. Parents getting paranoid about advertised deterioration of ethical values tries to over correct this by outsourcing their responsibilities of producing ethical adults to institutions trusted by them. This has created mayhem in society by making it intolerant to religious and ethnic diversity.

Institutionalised religious education should be limited only to very mature individuals above a certain age (the age we realise we cannot beat death - usually over 45). Even this education should start with world history of philosophy and religion, before embarking on more ambitious teaching of a particular single religion.

Stop ordaining children as monks. As monks these children caught up between two worlds. On one hand they are taught and brought up to uphold religious values. On the other hand the hormone reactions inside them makes natural instincts surface. Usually these two are as different as hevan and earth. When they are young they are torn apart between two worlds. As they become mature they learn to cope. When they become old they tend to forget everything in past and preach religion outwardly showing that they are extremely pure. Further, they start to enjoy the luxuries of being a senior priests. Also they will support the same process that they detest when they were young - making of young priests.

The urge to swell the priest population is political. Majority wants to maintain their superiority and minorities wants to preserve their identity. Large priesthood pulsation is absolutely necessary for both. But, everyone forgets that it is a grave crime, similar to war crimes, robbing the childhood, and sadly, done  by their most trusted guardians mostly - their parents.

Birth control is ignored by politicians and clergy. Increasing population is the biggest threat to humanity.  If promoted this directly affects democratic politicians and contemporary clergy. For these groups, larger the population better the benefits. Most of current religions prohibit birth control. This should stop.