I agree......I have my beliefs, and I don't go around knocking on people's doors, so why shoud it be OK for them to come knocking on mine.

Also when you tell them to go away they don't listen! x

I have to disagree there, my step son is at a church school and has well and truly been brainwashed into believing everything that they tell him about the bible as fact. Thankfully neither my partner nor I are religious and have given him an alternative viewpoint and he won't be going to a church high school so everything he's been told shouldn't stick as fact, merely as a viewpoint of certain people.

You're capable of making your choice, as was your sibling, but for JW's, it is such a HUGE part of their lives, and they stand to lose families, friends everything if they leave. Many Catholics are also thrown out of their families if they leave.

I have a friend who is a member of Opus Dei, a lovely person but a total fanatic, they actually promote the wearing of a cilisk (sp?) self mutilation. She was always trying to get me to get involved, until i told her i was not interested. I'll discuss and debate but thats as far as it goes.

For all unsolicited callers, they knock, I answer door, I say "no thank you", I close door.

They don't get a chance to say a single word..........

BLIMEY! That is extreme!!!!!!!!

Lol, guilty.


Its such a shame that so many still believe the fairy tale they're given as fact, even when confronted by the multitude of evidence to the contrary.



Oh no, you can't say he's imaginary, that's not pc.



I'm not going to even go there, its annoying me just thinking about it. It not an acceptable alternative, its shocks me that in this day and age, people still buy into the fantasy. People have long since (I think) stopped believing in fire breathing flying reptiles, but they believe a book that says some person was born from a virgin...wtf.



It isn't, but its religion, therefor they can get away with it. Can you imagine the outcry if a school said, 'no sorry, we only allow atheists in here.' I'm not a fan of faith schools at all anyway. Imo, its a way for parents to try and ensure that their kids learn what they want them to believe. After all, as a faith school they can teach whatever the hell they please, they get inspected by one of their own, not biassed at all obviously.

Personally I found r.e to be one of the most borring subjects I had to put up with in school. Mainly because it was basicly all about the 3 most popular ones, which I care little for. I find multi deity religions to be more interesting, I just think that whoever created monotheism was either lazy, or lacked imagination...saying that, wasn't one of the first recorded example of such a belief system found in ancient Egypt, created by one of the pharaoh's Akhenaten (father of tutankhamun) I believe. Quite an interesting man, though his attempt at change failed.

our nearest and best in preston high school is a christian secondary......

as me and OH dont go to church, but were both raised CofE and christened, Ellie will be at the bottom of the list for admission with church goers and even those who practice a DIFFERENT religion getting higher priority even though they may live miles and miles away!!!

I shall play them at their own game as much as i dont like it, i shal attend church every other sunday for the two years before admission to get her to the top of the list other wise she will end up in a crap school! the ofsted results for schools in preston is shocking!!!!

She will be taught that evolution is fact (as someone who studied evolutionary psychology at uni i despair at the creationist theory....cinderella's pumpkin carriage is more plausable!!!!) and will encourage her to question everything...even the existence of god etc in her school!

Now this is just what drives me insane! Why should you have to play this silly game just to get your daughter into your local school? Apparently studies of the demographics of church attendance show time and again a spike in attendence by families with kids about to start school or go to high school. It's so obvious what is happening!!! Is this what those churches want? People going through the motions of faith solely to get their kid into a school?

And why are church schools often higher achieving? Because they get to select their intake!!! Argh! Give me strength!

And why should they get to discriminate against my kids just because they have honest atheist parents??? For all they know my kids could be raging theists ... which they probably will be when they are teenagers just to press my buttons.

My son is in Year 6, can you tell? This is an especially sore point for me right now.

J.

You mean a "Celice?" Thats so they can suffer pain as Christ did. Bit extreme innit! Bit like a prong collar!

Ive never known them to "preach" but they can be a little persistent. Tell them you are late giving blood, they vanish in a second!