Originally posted by mudskipper
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I am an atheist.
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Originally posted by NotAllThere View PostHell has no power over heaven, and so, no, the people in heaven won't feel anything bad for the people in hell. Hard for us to understand how that could be, as it seems callous, but that's the way it is. One alternative some prefer is a universalist approach that in the end everyone is saved. Others think that non-believers merely suffer annihilation, which is what atheists effectively think they get anyway.
I would need some pretty powerful brain altering mojo for that, caring for my children is an intrinsic part of me and if you take that away I will no longer be 'me'. Hence I will not be in heaven, a distored version of me will be.
The more I hear about the Christian God the more I think he is horrific.Comment
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This inverse correlation is simply down to the fact that God is more merciful to the less intelligent.Down with racism. Long live miscegenation!Comment
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Originally posted by MyUserName View PostI will probably send my daughter to the local faith school that is attached to our church. The reasons are that they have very small class sizes and have excellent resources for handling autism. When she is old enough to apply critical thinking and logical observation I have no doubt she will see straight through religion, if she ever asks me I will explain to her why I do not belive it myself.Comment
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Originally posted by NotAllThere View PostThis inverse correlation is simply down to the fact that God is more merciful to the less intelligent.Comment
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Also worth noting if you feel that strongly about it - even at a faith school you can 'opt out' of the religious bits - a few kids at my son's primary school did, although on grounds of following other religions, not on grounds of no religion. Interesting that at his secondary, where there are lots of Asian kids, no-one opts out.Comment
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Originally posted by sasguru View PostNo you couldn't. Someone who confuses typos with intelligence has got to be thick as a plank.
Slow down, have a little think, then subject us to your tulipe in a readable form.
Just saying, like.Comment
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Originally posted by doodab View PostIronic then that faith schools are now perceived to offer a better standard of education.
I blame labours obsession with statistics and "teaching to targets", instead of teaching to learn. In an extreme example - say If all the kids already knew how to read and do maths before starting school, they should do calculus and a foreign lanuguage. (But this is now off topic).Signed sealed and delivered.Comment
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Originally posted by SupremeSpod View PostThe point I'm highlighting is the fact that you're so quick to leap in, foaming at the mouth no doubt, to denegrate other people's education in the futile attempt of somehow elevating yourself above the hoi polloi that you bollocks up your spelling.
Slow down, have a little think, then subject us to your tulipe in a readable form.
Just saying, like.
Shame about yourHard Brexit now!
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Originally posted by formant View PostMoving to send your kid to a 'good school' (probably going by little other than the Ofsted report) is quite a lazy approach, I find.
Originally posted by SupremeSpod View PostWhy would "strongly athiest" parents send their kids to a "religious school" in the first place? If they do then they're obviously not "that" strongly athiest.
Originally posted by mudskipper View PostI think it's going a bit far to say that faith schools indoctrinate the kids (although no doubt some do). My youngest went to a CofE primary - they had a religious assembly a couple of times a week, and did church visits at Easter, Founders day etc, but it certainly wasn't pushed all day every day.
Originally posted by formant View PostWell, no doubt people define indoctrination differently. I do think it's indoctrinating if kids are taught religious stories as facts and if you have later iron that out again as a parent. Children are meant to be able to believe that what they get taught at school is the truth, so when parents are then forced to undermine teachers' credibility, it adds a lot of unnecessary confusion and is likely to make kids challenge their teacher's authority (my older stepdaughter has by now repeatedly gotten into trouble over telling teachers they're "wrong"). Of course there are probably plenty of non-religious parents who don't bother even finding out what religious rubbish their kids get taught, in which case it may be less of an issue.Signed sealed and delivered.Comment
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