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GTB · Bushton Bushwacker Joined: 05 Jun 2007 Posts: 2206 Status:

Christianity and Schools

Should we still, in the 21st Century, have our places of education allied to an organisation that teaches oppression as a way of life which goes against Government guidelines and social laws? This organisation is based upon confused writings that profess this planet being no older than 6000 years old despite concrete evidence that it is more likely to be 4.3 billion years old. Should we subject our children to fairy stories about how the world was created in 6 days and tell them that it is factual - yet teach them a totally different set of events in science classes? I find it totally unfathomable that in this day and age we still teach our children scientific facts which are based on hard evidence yet combine them with ancient myths and legend.

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Peter Dolman · Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2009 6:14 am Post subject:

in reality the scenario you paint does not happen. schools teach, poorly in my mind, about all faiths many of them which it appears would not support our way of life.
all schools are supposed to hold a daily act of collective worship, it a legal requirement, but most of them (the schools) have not done so for years.

while I do not attend any church i do accept that most do introduce personal standards to children which I do find acceptable.
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Chuck · Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2009 10:13 am Post subject:

RE at the schools my boys attned is taught across all faiths, it does not however include a section for humanists ala Richard Dawkins who, in spite of its potential anti religious nature looks at the situation from a scientific view.

Chuck
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Local lass · Calnetalk Oracle Joined: 05 Jun 2007 Posts: 4792 Status:

next year my child is expected to go to a mosque in swindon on a school trip.i will not let him go.
i went to a c of e school.and have brought my child up the same way.
for me personaly i know there are a lot of muslims and god know what other religion but for me they can keep it i dont want it and i dont want to know about it.

rosco · Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2009 1:57 pm Post subject:

Peter Dolman · Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2009 2:31 pm Post subject:

LL purely out of interest do you regularly attend church?
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Chepfer · Posted: Wed Jul 29, 2009 1:23 pm Post subject:

It's more about the christian values than anything, love thy neighbour, helping others etc ....

Though i guess this is not just in christianity ?!

Science was once asked to prove that god doesn't exist and to prove desicively that the big bang happened ....... they couldn't

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jolou39 · Posted: Fri Jul 31, 2009 9:15 pm Post subject:

When I was looking at a school to send my older son to in calne, back in the 1990s, the two main faith schools, Holy Trinity and St Edmunds were in the top 20 in Wiltshire.

Dunstan and Priestley occupied the bottom 2 places in Wiltshire. Now, religion or not, what school would you want to send your child to?

The only criteria that made them different was I had to prove church attendance .....why was there such a big difference in performance other wise?

Children that go to church can't surely be smarter? OR maybe the fact that church going parents are possibly less likely to be divorced so maybe the children have a more secure upbringing, hence better school results???