Church schools in Britain

[butterfingersbeck]

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 religion.

But no sane adult believes in FC, whereas millions of otherwise intelligent and educated adults believe in an equally invisible, inaudible and intangible magical deity. Children either grow out of it (as I did) or they cling to it because unlike FC, no mentor will dare tell them that God is a fairy tale. The whole thing is institutionalised superstition. I call myself a "tolerant atheist" but I'm beginning to lose my patience with the God Squad...