Originally Posted by Damien (Post 35688816)

Wanting a secular education system doesn't mean you want to stifle peoples right it just means you don't think it's the state's job to get involved with the teaching of religion.

Originally Posted by Damien (Post 35688816)

Wanting a secular education system doesn't mean you want to stifle peoples right it just means you don't think it's the state's job to get involved with the teaching of religion.

Originally Posted by martyh (Post 35688802)

I know




Atheists love to try and restrict everybody else to their way of thinking .Maggie wants a secular education system completely forgetting that education started with religion ,she also forgets that it is the parents who decide how their children are educated and as an 'educator' she should really know better than to try and stifle peoples rights with their children.There is room for both types of education ,secular and faith based ,no need at all for one party to try to usurp the other

Originally Posted by Maggy J (Post 35688830)

Education is too important to be held hostage by any one faith.

Originally Posted by Maggy J (Post 35688830)

What he said..:kiss:

Especially when religion interferes in the teaching of science.

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I don't hate religion.I have a RE O-level. I respect religion,I respect the Christian Church and Christians.I have never been one for Christian or religion bashing.
Music,art,literature,medicine all owe so much to the Christian church.

However when religion is dragged into how we teach science and dogma takes over in education then I will say that it's time for religion to leave the school grounds and head for the church grounds and into the homes of those who wish to raise their children in whatever religion of their choice.I'm not saying parents shouldn't bring their children up in their own faith.Just that religion isn't the state's business. Education is too important to be held hostage by any one faith.

Originally Posted by Russ (Post 35688840)

And religion is too important in the world

Originally Posted by Gary L (Post 35688849)

Makes you wonder if we could function without religion.

Originally Posted by Gary L (Post 35688849)

Makes you wonder if we could function without religion.
we base our lives around religion. we make our decisions around religion.
yet we may die to find out that we're staying in the ground afterall.

Originally Posted by nomadking (Post 35688847)

Are you really saying that the teaching of science is the main problem.:shocked:

Outside of religion there are different sets of beliefs eg climate change, vegetarianism. Are you saying that those should be banned as well?

Originally Posted by Russ (Post 35688840)

And religion is too important in the world to be swept under the carpet of atheism.

Originally Posted by Sirius (Post 35688865)

Indeed all you are after this is worm food or grit for an icy path :D

Originally Posted by Maggy J (Post 35688867)

No one religion should be taught in state schools.

Originally Posted by Maggy J (Post 35688867)

No one religion should be taught in state schools.

Originally Posted by Chris (Post 35688876)

If you think that's what happens in a C of E or RC school, you are very much mistaken. RE classes in those schools take place just as everywhere else. The difference is, the foundation of the ethos of such a school is, explicitly, the way of life set out in the New Testament and upheld by their denomination of the Christian Church.

Again, you seem to believe that absence of religious belief is a neutral position, and therefore preferable. It is not.

Originally Posted by richard s (Post 35688887)

No one religion should be taught in any school... Better still no religion at all in my own personal view, but each to their own.