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UK faith schools teaching women must obey men

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Hahahaha, I'm actually starting to get the sense that you are just a troll.

You came on here and attacked my points, used profanity in your responses, and dodged a load of my points because you couldn't answer them?

'Intellectually inferior' give me a rest. If you don't have anything left to say that actually makes logical sense then I must say good day.

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I could have said stupid, but intellectually inferior is the nice way of stating this fact.

And you do that, you hypocrite. Even in the last post of yours that I shall reply to you, you are being hypocritical. You really want to accuse me of not addressing all your points when you haven't addressed all of mine? And instead accused me of "ad hominem" and laughing at me and now calling me a troll?

This is the part I always love the most. People projecting and turning into hypocrites because they have absolutely no argument left.

Mmmm delicious. Have a nice life Mr. Agnostic.

Reply 81

thunder_chunky

Original post by Reaver Daniels

Oh sure, because the Soviet Union was a brilliant example of a nation of intellectual atheists that were paragons of virtue. Your authoritarian attitude makes me laugh.

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Ah the old chestnut of bringing communism in as an example of secular society. Soviet Russia was a political society, the things done by it and it's name were done because of socialism, and not in the name of secularism or atheism.
If your little dig had any truth to it, societies which are currently well not it's way to being entirely security would be going down that path as well. I can think of a few Scandinavian countries which are now mostly secular, but have not yet resorted to Soviet style brutality. I guess that sort of torpedos that theory then.

Reply 82

thunder_chunky

Original post by Reaver Daniels

You're a bit late to this. We've already been over this a couple times up there ^

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I saw. It was a poor attempt to make a failed point.

Reply 83

Dannyboy2015

In principle, I don't like the idea of faith schools. I believe that outside of Religious Education lessons, religion should be left out of schools.

That being said however, I feel that a lot of people in this thread have a much more extreme view of what partially state funded faith schools are actually like. For example I am currently at a CoE school for sixth form, the only religion that we have is a morning assembly once every few weeks and a religious story on a PowerPoint presentation in the mornings that the teachers turn off anyway because they can't be bothered with it. Nobody is forced to attend the assemblies and nobody actually has to take part in the 'morning worship' if they don't want to.

We certainly aren't taught that evolution is wrong when we go to our science classes, in fact the only issue that teachers tell me they face is that some kids don't believe them when they talk about evolution because the children were taught previously that evolution was wrong and creationism is correct. Nor is there a huge amount of homophobia in the school (at least no more so than any other state school) rather, there are a thousand and one posters around the school talking about how homophobia is wrong.

I also think it is important to mention that these schools are not 100% funded by the government (although a large amount of funding does indeed come from the government), and they legally have to accept at least 50% (not sure if this is the case for every school, but it appears to be for the one I attend) of their students not based on religion if they want to maintain government funding.

So whilst I'm not particularly fond of religious schools as long as they are properly regulated and subject to inspections, I don't see a reason to immediately start closing them all down.

Reply 84

Babyoleg

I go to a Church of England sixth form,the same high school I went to. I think faith schools are bad because I know a lot of people who just went to church to get into my school because it is a good school so this is really dishonest and it also means that loads of people are excluded from the highest and best levels of education so that is not right. However, people from all over the city come to our school and it is quite mixed. We also have some Muslims and obviously agnostics. I do not believe at all my school is against gays or indoctrinates women. We have a gay chaplain and another gay teacher and we are encouraged to embrace everyone. We have a female head and loads of other senior female staff. We have a lot of strong headed and independent female teachers and girls are encouraged greatly to be the best they can be.