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    Thread: Church schools in Britain
Post: RE: Church schools in Britain
(February 11, 2009 at 3:39 pm)bozo Wrote: Don't think we should allow faith schools..period. The Blair "faith schools" thing is only one of several events to have got me hot under the collar over th...
 butterfingersbeck Politics 12 6326 February 11, 2009 at 7:43 pm
    Thread: Church schools in Britain
Post: RE: Church schools in Britain
Quote:That's the thing though, one of their main "mentors" is me so they do learn it is just a fairytale. You can't tell other people how to bring up their kids but you do your best for your own. Tha...
 butterfingersbeck Politics 12 6326 February 11, 2009 at 7:18 am
    Thread: Church schools in Britain
Post: RE: Church schools in Britain
Quote:I see it as no worse than telling kids about Father Christmas, they reach a certain age (or, more precisely, level of understanding of the world) and realise it is just a story, similarly with r...
 butterfingersbeck Politics 12 6326 February 11, 2009 at 6:59 am
    Thread: " Carry on Praying " starring nurse Caroline Petrie
Post: RE: " Carry on Praying " starring nurse Caroline P...
Look, if God existed, prayer wouldn't be necessary! If He is truly omniscient, benevolent and omnipotent, prayer is by definition redundant. If you need to PRAY to have any hope of POSSIBLY getting th...
 butterfingersbeck Christianity 15 6153 February 10, 2009 at 9:57 pm
    Thread: Church schools in Britain
Post: Church schools in Britain
Although I am an atheist and my wife an agnostic, we decided that the local Church of England state primary school (US: public school) was the best local choice for our two sons now aged 7 ("W") and 1...
 butterfingersbeck Politics 12 6326 February 10, 2009 at 9:37 pm