1. Sunday School for Atheists

Comment #90638 by bored on November 26, 2007 at 1:08 am

How ironic that the teacher is called Bishop!

"she realized Damian needed to learn about secularism" - surely all you need to do is watch the crap that's on tv every day?

This sounds a like they are trying to create 'Atheist children', i wonder if RD deplores this phrase as much as 'Muslim child' or 'Jewish child', instead of 'child of Muslim parents' etc.

2. Tony Blair: Mention God and you're a 'nutter'

Comment #90637 by bored on November 26, 2007 at 12:53 am

Let's be honest, being a 'nutter' is the human condition.
Thank goodness we're all different, and therefore we're all strange to others in some way.
Why can't we leave it at that?
Sometimes, it seems, reading comments on this website that the new 'religion' full of hate filled dogma that is trying to evangelize the world is 'Dawkinianity'....

3. Mind your manners

Comment #89862 by bored on November 22, 2007 at 1:48 am

"that people can believe what they like, but please do it in private"

Pot, Kettle

4. Onward Christian teachers?

Comment #89849 by bored on November 22, 2007 at 12:30 am

Well firstly it may be noted that the CofE basically started the education system as a philanthropy. It started with 'sunday school' where adults could come and learn literacy and numeracy on a sunday because they worked the other 6 days of the week, thus enabling them to get better jobs and better pay for their families. This then progressed into teaching children... We wouldn't be where we are now without this forward thinking.
Secondly both my wife and myself are teachers, she primary, i secondary. We both received our teacher training in CofE colleges and there was nothing religious about the course whatsoever!
CofE schools remain CofE schools because the diocese contributes a % of money, which the government, i.e. tax payers would have to contribute otherwise. This is no different from the string of schools that have been recently built using subsidies from wealthy philanthropists who make certain stipulations about how things should be done...