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Re: new school prayer |
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Posted by soton si on Sat Aug 25 19:59:40 2007, in response to new school prayer, posted by monorail on Fri Aug 24 07:19:06 2007. Surely the lack of prayer, etc in schools is actually offensive to believers that their children are taught by state education, that God doesn't matter so we won't teach anything about it.I'm sure atheists got atheism legally made a religion in the 60s to stop prayers in schools (as it was discriminating them). Now isn't the lack of prayer, etc in schools treating the rights of atheists as more important as Christians, etc, and thus causing the whole thing to go into a catch-22 situation? I'm by no means an expert on US law, so correct me if I'm wrong. In the UK there are a large number of people who are opposed to the teaching of Religious Studies in schools, saying it just breeds division and indoctrinates children. However RS in the UK is so pluralistic that it just covers "this group believes x for this reason and that believes y for that reason", if anything it aids understanding of other's beliefs. To not have this subject would basically remove any references to anything spiritual from school, adding to the increasing indoctrination (that seems to have mostly succeeded) of this country that even thinking about those things is of no use in life, and not worth bothering with. In effect it's indoctrinating secularism and, to a lesser extent, atheism in people. |
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