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

[matgb]

Tell that the the atheist parents of a 5-year-old who's utterly convinced the world was created by god because that's what school says.

This is a 5-yr-old who's great-grandmother insisted on a humanist funeral.

There are no non-faith schools in our area. I at least managed to get myself transferred away from the CofE school in my village to the next one along when I was 7, that's not an option where I've moved to.