Originally Posted by The Bear

No. If it were that a particular school was associated with pedophilia but offered a better than usual education would that mean that such a school should be allowed to continue to exist?

Of course not, and religion is as bad as paedophiles where children are concerned.

The only difference is that, with the exception of the Madrassas where beating is a part of the so called education, the scarring that the children usually get is mental but it still lasts throughout their lives.



Children should be protected from belief in god (or gods).

Such belief is illogical and if it were not for deep seated indoctrination would rightly result on those showing such delusional beliefs being subject to psychiatric treatment.

That it is taking vested interest groups to provide decent education is a reflection on how terrible UK state education is.



That has far more to do with the standard of the school than the involvement of and close association with religion. All it indicates is how awful the state system is, rather than how “good” it is that children should be being exposed to ANY religion or that such exposure does them any good whatsoever.

After all, the absence of bad does not mean the presence of good.

I see teaching children that there is such a thing as god as being exactly the same as any other form of child abuse and if anything worse than a good many forms.

Children should be protected from the religious.

Faith schools are the psychological equivalent of the dreadful practice of female genital mutilation so avidly practiced by certain ethno-religious groups within Britain to this day and about which nothing is getting done.