Agree!  Certainly, no religion should not be advocated in a public school, but I see nothing wrong with teaching ABOUT the religion, perhaps in a historical sense, so we can better understand each other.  In college, I recall taking such a religion class where we covered most of the major ones:  Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, etc.  None of the lessons made me want to change my faith, but it was certainly good (and interesting) to know what each religion stresses and why certain events in history occurred.  But having said this, even if the lessons did make you want to switch faiths, you are at least more knowledgeable about it vs. blindly being a certain religion because everyone else seems to like it.