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You mean the fear of man? Although, that will only work if your a muslim woman.
You never questioned Christian teaching in school?
It's pretty much all I did when I was there, the teachers didn't seem to mind either.
It's not a question of whether I did or not, it's a question of whether I was encouraged to, which is what school's supposed to be about. And the answer to that is a resounding no.
Why would you be though at a faith school? It would be different if you did question it and they just put their fingers in their ear and started singing, which doesn't happen.
Which is exactly the point. Children go to school to learn about things and question things around them. Faith schools fundamentally fly in the face of this in regards to a select few ideas. That's why they certainly shouldn't be funded by the government. And considering the fact that churches are free (ish), there is no way you can accuse anyone of denying the parent's right to teach their children their religion. Hell, America has no publicly funded faith schools, and yet practicing religion is far more widespread in America than Britain.
What is your argument? It's been expounded repeatedly the case against faith schools. Presumably you're fine with kids being indoctrinated at school?
"Indoctrinated?" I don't get this when people talk about Faith Schools. Religion attendance is declining and has been for decades in the UK yet Faith Schools are in the ascendancy. Surely that would mean a buck in the trend of Church attendance? Yet it doesn't, why is this? Because people think teenagers are blank canvasses to be moulded by the evil religious people and their minds will be corrupted forever. It's not like that, we're getting smarter and smarter as the generations go on, we're more skeptical and look for science for answers. I can't think of any of my former school friends who go to Church every week or believe in any of the dogma that they got "brainwashed" by. It's ridiculous, just talk to anyone who went to a Faith School and they'll say it had little or no influence on their lives. Faith Schools are more popular now because they attract the best teachers and have better reputations. Got fuck all to do with religion. Now I'm saying this in relatin to Christian Faith Schools, don't know much about others.
Because as I've demonstrated, they can use unfair selection methods to choose the best pupils (and the best teachers generally like to teach in a good school if they have the choice). Unless you can demonstrate a link between religious schools and better grades beyond student selection, then better grades isn't an argument for them (incidentally, the other specialist schools that aren't based on religion, but have similar ability to select students see similar patterns of student attainment).
Did I say there was a link between religion and better grades?
Kids are indoctrinated into a faith at faith schools. How much they're indoctrinated depends on the school and the faith.
It sounds like your argument, in summary, is: Kids in Christian schools don't buy the unsubstantiated nonsense purported by the school on the matter of religion, so it's OK. My opinion is that teaching the abandonment of critical thinking and exulting the virtues of faith is potentially dangerous, morally dubious, and shouldn't be done at the tax-payer's expense.
But they do teach critical thinking. They have to abide by the National Cirriculum, that includes teaching about the Theory of Evolution and Natural Selection, which was studied extensively when I went to school. Faith is secondary in Faith Schools, it's all a big facade to make the schools look more popular and appealing to parents so they can get the best kids to attend.