(July 3, 2012 at 12:43 pm)dean211284 Wrote: So ive considered myself atheist for around 7-8 years now. I have a son who is starting school in a few month. We choose his new school based on results and how they would be able to assist with his minor hearing loss. However, it is a church of England school (UK). My question is how I deal with him being taught so much religious ideology when it is not taught in a way i thought it would be. (I assumed even a religious school would teach children that there beliefs were only that, beliefs, not fact. I had hoped they would use some sentence such as "this is what some people believe" but they don't)
I want my son to learn about religion so he can see for himself how brutal, homophobic, racist and abusive it is for himself but i now think the school will only teach him the good (Of which im sure there is within the bible) aspects and he may begin to believe in a false god.
My nephew has said that he would not believe there was no god even if his mum and dad said so...his reason? His teachers told him there is a god. How can school abuse their positions of power so much?
thanks guys
If the school is good for hearing, send your son there, it's the logical option. I've never heard anything but good words (from many sources)about the religious schools in the UK, apparently the teaching standards are very good without getting indoctrinated into the bs.
