It's all about God

[andrewducker]

ciphergoth pointed me at the piece here on mandatory school prayer (still a legal requirement in the UK).

[Poll #1396727]

The train of thought presumably goes like this:
1) Children should be trained to do the morally correct thing until they are old enough to make their own decisions.
2) Praying to God is the morally right thing to do.
Therefore) Children should be trained to pray.

I can't see that lasting much longer, when the majority don't believe (2).

Comments

[makyo.livejournal.com]

I think there's a lot to be said for encouraging people to spend a short amount of time (even just five minutes or so) every day just sitting quietly. There's a weekly Quaker meeting at the Chaplaincy here (at Warwick) that I've been to occasionally, and it really is very calming and centring to sit quietly for a while.

(It turns out that one can quite cheerfully be a Quaker and an atheist or agnostic: although the movement itself originated in the Christian tradition, it's quietly and steadily grown beyond that over the past few hundred years.)