Re: Faith based schools in UK



"David V." wrote:

bob young wrote:

IbeDavid wrote:


On Oct 1, 1:44 pm, "John M."
<john_howard_mor...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

As most pee ople are probably aware, deliberately putting
religious superstitions into the uninformed minds of
children is a form of abuse that ranks alongside
paedophilia (both sexual and sadomasochistic).

Unhappily this former occurs in a greater or lesser extent
in all faith based schools. To avoid it, it is necessary
to adopt the draconian measure of closing down all such
schools, as one finds already in many enlightened
countries.

An e-petition demanding this from the British government
can be found athttp://petitions.pm.gov.uk/faithschools/
and is already the second most widely signed of the
current petitions concerning education. I urge all
reasonable persons to follow my example and add their
names to the list.

REPLY: Destructive religious indoctrinations would be
tenets of atheism such as moral relativism, and the
like...because atheism makes oneself the god of his life so
doing whatever he feels like doing can be made permissable.
Regards.

Another idiot with no idea at all what atheism is all about.

Well, there is at least 300 million of those idiots in the US alone.

300 million, thats more than 80% I think, can't be THAT bad can it? !



Emmett below has you well summed up in his final line

"Atheism is the world of reality, it is reason, it is freedom.
Atheism is human concern, and intellectual honesty to a degree
that the religious mind cannot begin to understand. And yet it
is more than this. Atheism is not an old religion, it is not a
new and coming religion, in fact it is not, and never has
been, a religion at all. The definition of Atheism is
magnificent in its simplicity: Atheism is merely the bed-rock
of sanity in a world of madness." [Atheism: An Affirmative
View, by Emmett F. Fields]

How are they going to understand that when they refuse to accept
that Atheism is simply a lack of belief in gods?

--
Dave

You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents,
not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.
- Abbie Hoffman

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