howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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15 February 2011
14:0592732alex
churches have sunday schools to teach children about christianity, mosques have madrassas that do the same for islam.
school should be for children to get a rounded education on earthly matters, thus enabling them to get a decent job when they finish.
Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
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15 February 2011
17:3792765howard,well worded post.30 minuets a week in school is more than enough,we had morning asembles 3 days a week c of e and 2 days a week for rc's.there is of course early morning mass if you need it and thats without 2 servises on sundays.
Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
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15 February 2011
17:4192766brian
i have no problem with the teaching of religion in schools and wouldnt want to limit it.
this posting is about brutality in schools
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Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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15 February 2011
17:4892769kieth,i know what the threads about but was answering to alexs post.
Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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16 February 2011
00:5492806I don't think Gov. will make the error of banning Christian teaching from school. Chrtistianity does not prevent schools from teaching children how to learn other subjects too.
Although I do believe that there should be a review in what is taught as Christian Faith, in order to distinguish between that what is written in the Gospel and doctrines of later periods.
Having attended Army school in North Camp and Saint Mary's Church of England in Dover, I received no indoctrination, but only knowledge of pure Christian Faith. This must never be denied to British children at school in our own country.
I don't believe the Government will sacrifice the rights of our Country's children to education in the Christian Faith at school.
As for churches, Howard, they have been closing down left right and centre, and frankly I believe that some church ministers have proven been abusing of the Church's authority so as to give Christianity a false definition. All the more reason why the State must provide a sane education in matters of the Faith that has been home to the British Isles for so many generations.
The State has obliogations towards the welfare of the children, and this includes their spiritual welfare. Christianity must be the founding Institution of Britain, and any attempt to knock this down must be combated with the law.
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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16 February 2011
01:2092809The Church of England is the established church of the United Kingdom, by statute. Other faiths are practiced through tolerance.
Times have changed. The Christian churches and their priesthood have largely proved themselves to be unfit to fulfil the role of guardian of the nation's moral and spiritual life.
It is time we disestablished the Church. When the Prince of Wales becomes King I believe it will happen. Then all faith schools will lose their special status.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
Ross Miller
- Location: London Road, Dover
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16 February 2011
22:0092907Alexander D - there speaks an indoctrinated man
Peter G - absolutely we should be a secular state, though recognising our christian tradition as it is after all the basis of much of our culture and law
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