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

[bracknellexile.livejournal.com]

Heh. The idea of a vaccine so that you can't catch religion is a wonderful mental image. Maybe that's what the R is in the MMR jab....

[nancylebov.livejournal.com]

There's a similar argument for having state-supported religion. It does seem to have worked that way in modern Europe.