A new member. A Catholic school teacher.

[Tonus]

Even though my faith has waned, my love for my colleagues remains the same and it feels very difficult to consider that they may see my motivations as a sleight.

Not so odd. The way religious belief traps us is much easier to see from the outside. This is where love and empathy are truly tested, IMO, and many religious people fail because their religious faith demands it. They will turn away from you and blame you for it, and it's an attitude that they cannot imagine actually having.

Welcome to the forums.

[Mr. Moncrieff]

I am determined to live my life as fully as I possibly can and in the honesty of personal development - whatever manifestation that may be.

I consider myself an agnostic weak atheist in that I believe nothing is truly knowable in terms of that of the supernatural. However I consider the supernatural to be intrinsically irreconcilable with our lives currently and find the dogmatic principles of organised religion to be distinctly...flawed.

I can't agree with the treatment of gays, the oppression of women, the inclination towards fear and guilt, the absurdity of hypocrisy and contradiction and the reliance upon a book written by fallible men in a time of latent neurosis and patriarchal dedication to racist and theological genocide.

[Rev. Rye]

For the record, What subject do you teach?

[Minimalist]

If you are using your real name you might want to ask the staff to change it for you. The church would take a dim view of your statements.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/jury-finds-f...pregnancy/

They seem to have a low opinion of everything except pedophilia.

[Mr. Moncrieff]

For the record, What subject do you teach?

I am a primary teacher, meaning I teach all subjects... Including RE.

[My imaginary friend is GOD]

If it's any consolation, you're not alone as someone trapped in religious circumstances that doesn't believe.

[Mr. Moncrieff]

If you are using your real name you might want to ask the staff to change it for you. The church would take a dim view of your statements.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/jury-finds-f...pregnancy/

They seem to have a low opinion of everything except pedophilia.

Thank you for your concern. Moncrieff is a pseudonym...Oscar Wilde the provider.

[Minimalist]

Welcome, then. And indulge yourself.

Call me "Min."

[FreeTony]

I am a primary teacher, meaning I teach all subjects... Including RE.

Are Primary schools really that religious? I know that many are CofE, but most students don't come out as believers. Is yours a bit more hardcore?
I bet some of your colleagues have the same views you do.

We did hymns and prayers in assembly, but the kids that were religious were that way because they went to church outside of school. The majority of us just ignored the religious stuff and probably didn't really know what it was all about. It was just something boring we had to do for a few minutes.

I always wondered why a God would want some bored teenagers singing badly at it.

[Mr. Moncrieff]

As a Roman Catholic Primary School, we are directly funded and inspected by the Catholic Church in order that we uphold the values of the Church and live our lives, both personal and professional in a way that does not directly conflict with the stated doctrine of the Catechism.

We have prayers, worships, RE sessions, reflections...etc

We are actually a greater source of spiritualism than the local church if truth be told...

You can see my chagrin at the demands that are thusly put upon me as a teacher who now holds very, very, VERY few of those contract statements to be sacrosanct.