Irish schools don't allow atheist couples kids in
November 13, 2015 at 4:56 am
(This post was last modified: November 13, 2015 at 4:57 am by Fake Messiah.)
Irish school places proving a headache for parents of unbaptized children
She said she has applied without success to 15 local schools - Catholic, Church of Ireland, Methodist and Jewish - for a place for Reuben.
Why? Because he is not baptized and not a member of any religion in a state where the churches control 96% of all schools and give preference to their members rather than to local children.
"These are state-funded schools, so, we're frustrated and very angry."
Paddy, a barrister, says it is unconstitutional to discriminate against children like his, and he has 16,000 signatures seeking a change in the law."
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-34772148
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
