Why is philosophy not taught in school as an alternative to religion?
Because teaching philosophy or logic to every child in school would destroy religion and altruism. They both survive by crippling the mind of children. When an authority figure tells a child that morality and rationality are opposites (a completely insane, illogical concept) the child eventually accepts that gross contradiction as valid and loses faith in their own mind. This allows the teachers, parents, priests and politicians to control the child without answering the most sacred of questions: ‘Why?’. “You still preserve the root, the lethal tenet: the belief that the moral and the practical are opposites. Since childhood, you have been running from the terror of a choice you have never dared fully to identify: If the practical, whatever you must practice to exist, whatever works, succeeds, achieves your purpose, whatever brings you food and joy, whatever profits you, is evil-and if the good, the moral, is the impractical, whatever fails, destroys, frustrates, whatever injures you a
