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[Darwinian]

Darwinian -

How about faith schools for adults? Or optional lessons about religion, for kids?

I'm not bothered about adults learning about religion if they want, or even children if they are interested in the subject.

What I do object to are entire schools set up by churches or other religious authorities that have a specific agenda in mind which is to teach children that a particular faith is correct. To me this is simply brain washing and is one of the main reasons that the religious virus carries on infecting new generations.

There's a big difference between telling children that some people believe in a god and telling them that god is real.

My son went to a Church of England school and the number of times he would come home and tell me that his teacher told him he should believe or the local visiting vicar telling the whole school that God does this and Jesus did that, or that ridiculous happy clappy Christian puppet show that used to visit all the time. To me this is the pernicious indoctrination of innocent and highly impressionable children who have the right to decide for themselves what their place in the Cosmos is without having their minds poisoned by a bunch of devout Christian teachers closely monitored by the Church authority.

To me it is an evil and the sooner it's stamped out the better.