Why should religion have any influence on our lives?

[Fidel_Castronaut]

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.

That's true except under recent government legislation Hindu's can apply to set up their own free school which explicitly caters for the local Hindu community. I'm not even 100% sure there needs to be a quota for non-Hindu's to attend but I could be wrong on that. One this is for sure; Academies run by religious organisations are not (yes, read that again, not) required to follow any national curriculum at all. They can teach whatever they want.

There are Hindu faith schools in the UK, as well as Muslim schools, Sikh schools, even a Seven day Adventist school:

https://www.gov.uk/types-of-school/faith-schools

https://www.gov.uk/government/publicatio...th-schools

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faith_school#England

None of them are legally required to open up their doors to children of any faith beyond a token quota (of given %). None are required to follow the national curriculum on religious education. They can teach that their faith is the one true faith and that all other faiths are lies and nobody can do anything about it.