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Rowan williams warns of downgrading of religious education.

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Rowan williams warns of downgrading of religious education.
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Rowan williams warns of downgrading of religious education.
April 8, 2012 at 5:48 am
Are people not taking christianity seriously aahh didums

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-17646549



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RE: Rowan williams warns of downgrading of religious education.
April 8, 2012 at 5:53 am
Quote:But he will insist that the ultimate test of Christianity is not whether it is beneficial to the human race but whether the resurrection of Jesus Christ actually happened.

This ones easy.
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RE: Rowan williams warns of downgrading of religious education.
April 8, 2012 at 6:35 am
(April 8, 2012 at 5:53 am)tobie Wrote:
Quote:But he will insist that the ultimate test of Christianity is not whether it is beneficial to the human race but whether the resurrection of Jesus Christ actually happened.

This ones easy.

That is a test Christianity has failed many times.
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RE: Rowan williams warns of downgrading of religious education.
April 8, 2012 at 7:23 am
The thing is, RE is important, it's knowledge about religious cultures, which i think it's better to know then live in ignorance, or you'd be as bad as they are. My eldest kid didn't pick it for GCSE and therefore stopped doing it at 14, so I don't see the problem, it isn't enforced at higher level.
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RE: Rowan williams warns of downgrading of religious education.
April 8, 2012 at 7:44 am
(April 8, 2012 at 7:23 am)5thHorseman Wrote: The thing is, RE is important, it's knowledge about religious cultures, which i think it's better to know then live in ignorance, or you'd be as bad as they are. My eldest kid didn't pick it for GCSE and therefore stopped doing it at 14, so I don't see the problem, it isn't enforced at higher level.

It's compulsory to do it in some degree until 16, so my school made it a mandatory GCSE.
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RE: Rowan williams warns of downgrading of religious education.
April 8, 2012 at 8:02 am
So why does my son, who is 16 and still at school, not do it?
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RE: Rowan williams warns of downgrading of religious education.
April 8, 2012 at 8:07 am
When I saw the title of this thread I thought it was talking about the guy that plays Mr. Bean.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
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RE: Rowan williams warns of downgrading of religious education.
April 8, 2012 at 10:30 am
I liked this one:

"He said that for Christians a vision of reconciled love between people "is there only because God raised Jesus" and that the answer was not in scientific proof, but by the way believers lived with and in their faith."

In a sentence he has identified what is wrong with religious belief. He wonders why less people are believing?
"A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything." -Friedrich Nietzsche

"All thinking men are atheists." -Ernest Hemmingway

"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." -Voltaire
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RE: Rowan williams warns of downgrading of religious education.
April 8, 2012 at 10:49 am (This post was last modified: April 8, 2012 at 10:49 am by Norfolk And Chance.)
(April 8, 2012 at 8:02 am)5thHorseman Wrote: So why does my son, who is 16 and still at school, not do it?

My daughter was also forced to take it and she's 16.

Also, Rowan Williams has ridiculous eyebrows.
You are currently experiencing a lucky and very brief window of awareness, sandwiched in between two periods of timeless and utter nothingness. So why not make the most of it, and stop wasting your life away trying to convince other people that there is something else? The reality is obvious.

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RE: Rowan williams warns of downgrading of religious education.
April 8, 2012 at 1:23 pm
He has also subscribed to the idea that "religious thinking" will improve the economy.
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