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Thread #144236 Message #3336665
Posted By: Musket
11-Apr-12 - 07:54 AM
Thread Name: BS: Follow Jesus, not religion Andrew Sullivan
Subject: RE: BS: Follow Jesus, not religion Andrew Sullivan
Learning about world religions from an objective perspective is for me as important as geography, history and science, if the object of the exercise is to demonstrate how and why people are different, why national and personal perspectives alter both geographically and culturally, and indeed broaden your horizons.
Not sure something called a faith school does that Keith? if it is a faith school, what does the faith bit mean? Why can't local education authorities capture what makes the grades good and inject that into policies for all schools and remove the brain washing of children from the curriculum?
You can't have it both ways. Either the word faith is an active word or religious belief has bugger all to do with it. A friend of mine who isn't superstitious had to pretend to be a believer in Christian superstition in order to get his kids into the local performing school. No matter I suppose, and I would do the same. Yeah yeah, course I'm a God botherer and I believe in all that stuff. Now educate my children please.
I'd lie, same as he did. It doesn't matter because there is no hell they can send you to, and lying to delusion pedlars isn't a crime, it's playing their absurd game with them.
But why the flying f.. do we have to? In case beardy and his mates didn't realise, we pay for it out of our taxes. Even private education gets so many tax and charity breaks, tax payers pay more than anxious parents. If they want taxes to pay for their club, put up candidates promising a theocracy, and see how many votes that would get you. I don't like too many laws, but equality legislation is ok by me, if it stops dangerous cults from perpetuating their historically forced respectability.
I need a coffee now, sorry for the rant...