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Thread #158163   Message #3737986
Posted By: Mo the caller
17-Sep-15 - 03:58 PM
Thread Name: BS: Conservatives at Mudcat
Subject: RE: BS: Conservatives at Mudcat
Steve said "
Being religious does not make you right-wing. Telling lies to your children about God and making them go to faith schools when there are other choices is right-wing."

But what is a lie? And what else can you tell your children than what you believe?
Can a statement be untrue without being a lie? I suppose my definition would be a lie is saying something you believe to be untrue.

From my atheist PoV faith schools are unhelpful and divisive, but from the PoV of some believers "a Godless education is no education" - I forget which history of education textbook I read that quote in, 50 years ago.