(July 2, 2009 at 4:23 pm)fr0d0 Wrote:(July 2, 2009 at 2:42 pm)bozo Wrote: on my first day in infant school we were taught 2 things. To shut our eyes, hold our hands together and repeat the Lord's prayer. And to stand up for our national anthem requesting " God save the Queen ". Thus the individual is caught in the trap of God and Royalty worship.Blimey! I don't remember singing the national anthem at school, and we never prayed. I don't remember there being any Christians. Hindu's, Jews sure.
It can take a long time to escape that, luckily I did, and I am now both atheist and republican.
So your school didn't....are you disputing the point I am making?
A man is born to a virgin mother, lives, dies, comes alive again and then disappears into the clouds to become his Dad. How likely is that?