Why should religion have any influence on our lives?

[Fidel_Castronaut]

Hrm. That does seem a bit weird to me just because that's not what I've grown up with. The rather cut-and-dry nature of the serparation between public money and faith schools in the US at least makes that aspect much more simple.

Separation between public money and 'religion' doesn't happen here which is odd as the the UK is much more secular than the US.

The current faith school system effectively means that the UK Govt endorses given religions by handing over buckets of cash which allows them to enforce segregation (remember they can pick and choose who attends based on the child's religious adherence). This is despite the fact that the overwhelming majority of people who have contributed that tax do not adhere to or believe in that religion, and this is true whether it be Catholicism, CofE, Islam etc.

Again, fair?