| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Religious meetings at the Natural Cafe | |
| Posted by: | Stine Madsen | |
| Date/Time: | 20/05/07 20:38:00 |
| Roland - I so LOVE reading your contributions to the forum - they're so funny!! "Your intolerance is typical of atheists"!! How hilarious. Seriously, I think we all know that intolerance exists mainly in religious people - the whole point of "faith" is believing in one thing, and one thing only. I have always found that religious people by and large are very reluctant to entertain different ideas - by doing so they place their faith on very shaky ground indeed. I'm not sure what you believe Roland, but you certainly enjoy talking down to other people on the forum. I don't think anyone here wants to deny anyone else their right to learn about any particular flavour of deism. All we are saying is that perhaps time spent in school is better spent on maths and sciences - you know, mainstream, universally applicable subjects. No-one is saying that an individual cannot spend their own free time reading about their own faith, or indeed any of the myriad of other faiths. In fact, if we spend public funds (provided courtesy of taxpayers of every persuasion) on a thorough education in the basics, perhaps people will have the requisite reading, writing, thinking and reasoned opinion-forming skills necessary to come up with their own educated conclusions. Faith schools aren't child abuse Roland - I don't know where you got that idea - all anyone is suggesting is that faith schools tend, in a mixed society, to lead to isolation of the different community groups. Muslims children socialise mainly with Muslim children, Catholics mainly with Catholics, etc. As you will recall, this sort of thing worked BRILLIANTLY in Northern Ireland. Religious schools just means that children are encouraged to think of themselves as members of a specific religious community rather than as citizens of England. Anyway, this is a very interesting course the original thread is taking, but I still think that you are way off base calling me paranoid. I think you did not read my message from May 18th properly, perhaps you should try again. |