School scraps Easter service to respect other religions

[noseall]

Define God.

How do you account for the imagination of billions?

Cop out answer.

 

[blup]

Yes, but is that because they're effectively a selective school,

Faith based selection

better funded

Non funded for certain things like the building of the school in the first place, and other revenue funding

or somehow religion makes you good at GCSEs? (Hint, no it doesn't there's pretty strong negative correlation, especially in sciences).

You’ll have to expand on that, unless you mean the creation-ists

How much better might they do if they stop worshiping sky pixies?

The statistics speak for themselves

 

[blup]

Define God.

That’s the other pub quiz question (it’s going to be a long night).

It seems to me that religious belief/God is like patriotism or national identity, easy to assert but difficult to define or pin down. But are either less valuable or important for it?

 

[Highway Man]

The possibility of religious schools doing better academically than non religious schools would probably be down to discipline of lthe parents and of the teachers in putting a lot of importance on the kids learning. Less messing around in classes and with teachers allowing this in other schools would reflect on the student examination grades. So maybe a stricter and a higher education emphasis in general.

 

[denso13]

Which fundamentalists promote slavery?
That's what i was asking to start with, not necessarily the differences in practising their beleif, which have more variaties than the French have cheeses. Quakers were among the first to preach abolition: you've heard of George Fox, right?

New York Times columnist unmasks racism of Christian Nationalism

The dean of the Christian Reconstructionist movement, the late Rousas John Rushdoony, argued that since slavery was mentioned several times in the Bible, certain forms of it should exist in modern society.

www.au.org

 

[IT Minion]

Faith based selection

Not just that, when people have looked at it the better outcomes are potentially down to more affluent parents. The rules for religious schools allow more selection and if you're rich you can game the system more easily to get into the better school, which is a self reinforcing cycle.

 

[Odds]

New York Times columnist unmasks racism of Christian Nationalism

The dean of the Christian Reconstructionist movement, the late Rousas John Rushdoony, argued that since slavery was mentioned several times in the Bible, certain forms of it should exist in modern society.

www.au.org

Ah yes, the neo-cons. As bad as the mad mullahs. Fruitcakes, the lot of 'em...another reason why Trump is more dangerous than our forum trolls would like to admit. He's their patsy.

edit: an interesting read on how religion has crept into American politics and blurred the lines between Church and State @ VOX.com

 

[Highway Man]

Trump is more dangerous than our forum trolls would like to admit. He's their patsy.

Where is the danger in our forum trolls?

 

[Odds]

If you're gonna ask and answer your own q. whaddya need me for?

 

[denso13]

Some would argue, with some justification, that those who follow all of God's words are doing it right, while the ones who pick and choose the comfy bits aren't.

 

[MNW67]

I have just been reading that two Muslim faith schools in Blackburn top the national tables for something called "Progress 8".

 

[Brigadier]

 

[blup]

Not just that, when people have looked at it the better outcomes are potentially down to more affluent parents. The rules for religious schools allow more selection and if you're rich you can game the system more easily to get into the better school, which is a self reinforcing cycle.

You can make that argument for any state or private school

 

[Odds]

Some would argue, with some justification, that those who follow all of God's words are doing it right, while the ones who pick and choose the comfy bits aren't.

Those who would argue in such manner forget the Gospels thrown out by the Council of Nicea who decided which were the 'official' words of God. Did the Almighty hire them as editors?

 

[denso13]

Who knows.