Atheism 2
I have previously mentioned my feelings on religion, the dangers it poses and the facts it contradicts (see previous post). I fully accept that it helps people by acting as a dose of placebo, or as a psychological crutch.Blair's current policy on faith schools, which the Guardian (of all papers!) fairly commented upon in two articles: is abhorrent, dangerous and badly timed. As people are questioning religion's dangerous grip on impressionable and gullible people when it causes them to blow themselves up, and while the government has presided over the opening of four Muslim state-funded faith schools, Blair is proposing an extension of the number of faith schools for Islam and Judaism.
I have only just found the National Secular Society, but when I have fully researched their position, intentions etc, I may join.
We must stop this dangerous increase in the segregation of society amongst the young. Let us return to the Grammar/Secondary Modern system and reaffirm common-sense in schools by separating state-funded education, the state and religion.
2 Comments:
There's a difference between there being religion and there being religious schools. You can have - and barely notice - the former without needing the other.
Additionally, there's a difference between religious schools existing in a country with only one faith and one where there is a multiplicity of faiths.
The divisions along religious lines is harmful to the cause of unity and cohesion but this is less the fault of religiosity itself and more the fault of there being a number of different religions amongst which people are divided.
In a single religion country I think religious schools might distinguish between people without actually dividing them.
I agree. I think the idea of a single religion country, however, is becoming less and less a realistic.
I don't want to be misunderstood, either, on the question of religiosity vs. any particular religion: I don't intend to suggest that religion, or a religion, is at fault for having religious schools that cause division. The fact that there is more than one religion suggests that at least one of any two you may choose are completely false and that the division is purely of human cause.
To incorporate something that cannot be shown to be true or false into education and, as a result, skewing the education of children in this country funded by the state, is something that I don't feel is helpful or healthy.
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