| 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: | Julia Matcham | |
| Date/Time: | 21/05/07 11:17:00 |
| 'Most schools are non-demonational whereas most people are not atheist so perhaps the balance is not as you perceive it. I see no problem with tax paying parents wishing to have their children educated in an environment that supports their beliefs. The problem is people like you who wish to deny them that choice. To suggest that faith schools purpose is to indoctrinate would surely have been picked up by H.M Inspectorate as child abuse if it had an iota to truth to it.' What you are saying is that tax-paying gives you a right to brain-wash your children. I doubt that 'most people', meaning the majority of English people are religious even if they pay lip-service to it. It pays to fit in and the schools are good. And HM Inspectorate and the Charity Commission have always had the problem of whether what is good for the Christian Goose (tax relief) should be denied to the Gander of other beliefs, however weird, and which can pass themselves off as religion. They would rather give them all charitable status because not to do so would invite a deadly argument...ALL or NONE. They can't prove one story is better than another...that's the trouble with FAITH ...you can believe anything and as long as you can get enough to choose the same story, you can apply for charitable status. You call me arrogant but it is you who are arrogant with your self-serving opinions, and misrepresentation of what others have been writing here. 'stop this anti semitic, anti christian and islamophobic nonsense' what the h*ll are you talking about...I am against 'religion' can't you grasp that as an abstract concept? I see religion as a lot of stories that can't be proved. If you are NOT religious you CAN'T be anti semitic or anti any religion in that sense (how dare you!); one is just sad that so many people believe whatever they do so passionately that they are prepared to kill each other over the details. |