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State schools 'not providing group worship'

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State schools 'not providing group worship'
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RE: State schools 'not providing group worship'
October 1, 2011 at 6:26 pm
Most teachers have no clue what it's about anyway. The whole thing is a sham.
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RE: State schools 'not providing group worship'
October 1, 2011 at 6:40 pm
Is the video I posted playing properly? I keep getting "video not available" when testing it. Trying to learn how to do it. I used the different codes available but still doesn't seem to be working.
Theists changing my derision of religion is equivilent to pissing into the wind and expecting not to get wet.
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RE: State schools 'not providing group worship'
October 1, 2011 at 7:13 pm (This post was last modified: October 1, 2011 at 7:14 pm by TheDarkestOfAngels.)
Well, this is why I believe the ACLU is a fan- TASTIC organisation. Telling public schools that they should conform to the US constitution in regards to freedom from religion?
Yes, please.

I remember my 5th grade teacher used to love to quote gospel and she had us use the bible for one assignment in class (for a grade. She did clear it with the principal first.)
I loved to say things in class to annoy her. I remember a conversation I had with a friend about how gods from other religions could beat Jesus in a fight. It was funny because I was really into dragonball z at the time and the idea of gods fusing into super-gods came up in these discussions. I got disciplinary marks frequently in that class for unrelated reasons (rarely to detention mind you.)
If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach in the public schools, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools and next year you can make it a crime to teach it to the hustings or in the church. At the next session you may ban books and the newspapers...
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
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RE: State schools 'not providing group worship'
October 1, 2011 at 8:40 pm
Quote:Religious nuts can't force me to do shit.


Gee,they can make do all kinds off stuff, including saying sincerely "Yes, of course I believe in----" (insert superstition of your choice).

All they need to do is to threaten to hurt me and be in a position to actually do so. My mother didn't rear any stupid children.Tiger
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RE: State schools 'not providing group worship'
October 2, 2011 at 4:56 am
(October 1, 2011 at 6:40 pm)ArmchairAtheist Wrote: Is the video I posted playing properly? I keep getting "video not available" when testing it. Trying to learn how to do it. I used the different codes available but still doesn't seem to be working.
If you use the full post editor, or when posting a new post: if you use the code by clicking on the 'lil TV you'll see this

Code:
[video=youtube]http://linky[/video]

If you just use video you get the blank screen.

Is that the problem?
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RE: State schools 'not providing group worship'
October 2, 2011 at 4:29 pm
(October 1, 2011 at 5:06 pm)frankiej Wrote: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-14794472

Although this is from the start of September I thought I would post it anyway...

Quote:The Bishop of Oxford, the Right Reverend John Pritchard, said doing daily worship in schools was an "important statement"

"What we believe as a country is important in the education of our young people, so I think it is an important statement that the country makes to its schools and says will you please do this," he said.

"If schools refuse to do that, or fail to, then I think they need to be encouraged to do it, I wouldn't use the word enforced though at all."

The Bishop of Oxford can go suck on a decomposed rectum.

I would suggest that the parents can take them to church afterwards for daily worship. But why would you want to waste the precious time that schools have?
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RE: State schools 'not providing group worship'
October 3, 2011 at 8:08 am
(October 2, 2011 at 4:29 pm)kılıç_mehmet Wrote:



I would suggest that the parents can take them to church afterwards for daily worship. But why would you want to waste the precious time that schools have?

I am to understand that, that is the whole point of the complaint against religion; mehmet
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RE: State schools 'not providing group worship'
October 3, 2011 at 10:44 am
Yup. As it is law for schools to have this worship I get rather angry... I went through the bullshit and hated it. It isn't good for the church either, people leave thinking religion in general is boring... They wouldn't be wrong though Wink
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RE: State schools 'not providing group worship'
October 3, 2011 at 2:43 pm
I'm pleased that " morning assembly " as it was in my day appears to be off the agenda in a majority of state schools today. So it should in an ever more secular society that we have today.
A morning assembly should be an opportunity to consider the world we live in and not the continuance of superstitious nonsense.
HuhA man is born to a virgin mother, lives, dies, comes alive again and then disappears into the clouds to become his Dad. How likely is that?
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