Sri Lanka

In the news, the Sri Lanka government has recently made Buddhism the official religion. Some Christian advocates in Sri Lanka are worried and Buddhists are happy about it. The ones that are against this amendment are worried because it breaches the freedom of religion amendment in that it requires that Buddhist parents are required to teach Buddhism to their children. I think that both sides have good points because Christianity has been introduced by foreigners and has been evangelistic in nature. Many of the Sri Lanka people have considered the Christianity in their country as sort of "forced" upon them, so I agree with them in this aspect. But what I don't like is that the Buddhist parents are required to teach Buddhism to their children, whether their children want to be Buddhists or not. This infringes on their freedom of religion amendment and this certain ruling should be left out of the amendment. The other religions, according to this amendment, are free to be practiced peacefully, so that's a good thing. All in all, the amendment can be passed, without that certain ruling of teaching Buddhism to your children and it's also good because it should lessen the anti-Christian violence in Sri Lanka.