Why should religion have any influence on our lives?

[FatAndFaithless]

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).

Again, fair?

Yeah..that seems bizarre. So take the small portion of say...Hindus, in the UK. They pay taxes as anyone else would. However, their tax money would be used to a local Christian or Muslim school because that's where most parents send their children to school, and I'm assuming there wouldn't be any Hindu faith schools locally? That seems rather unfair to religious minorities and the irreligious.