Religion in UK/Franklin Graham

The UK already has faith schools, paid for by the taxpayer, thank you Tony Blair and Labour party for breaking that pledge. Professor Richard Dawkins did a series of documentaries on them, it was appalling. Also by law visiting theists can teach primary children about religion, my brother-in-law was a primary school teacher, and had to sit while some woman espoused superstition to his class, he was biting his lip, but he was relieved to notice one or two of the children turn to look at him, with an expression that said, this is bullshit surely? Once the visitor had gone they had all sorts of questions, and he answered them honestly, they nearly all said they didn’t believe her claims. It’s appalling that people won’t leave a child’s education alone. If anyone wants to preach religion then they can do in church, a state funded education is not the place for proselytising, though they could be thought religion as a secular class, teaching only the facts, and the historicity and culture of various religions.

I went to his Facebook claims, and there were dozens fawning praise on him, and telling him he was welcome in the UK, and that he was needed, my guess is many of them were fake accounts. I posted on there, pointing out that we already have free speech and freedom to believe in any religions we want, or none at all, as his assertions seemed to imply we did not. A more likely inference is that he wants to abuse free speech to promote bigotry and prejudice.

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