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

[andrewducker]

I have a dislike of the mixing of education and religion. They seem to me to be entirely opposite in purpose.

Of course, this could be because I went to one for four years :->

[bohemiancoast.livejournal.com]

Look at the US, where the schools rigorously eliminate anything religious and the population has a high proportion of demented religious loons.

[matgb]

Population density. Complete lack of welfare system meaning many join churches as alternative welfare network. Many schools in less diverse areas are non-religious in theory but work on the assumption everyone's religious, etc...