Seemingly trivial things that annoy you
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Is it not just an aspect of working in larger organisations.
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I think you should lobby for misanthropy awareness week. 😐
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Pinnacle Monzonite
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Yes. We only have about 400 people in total though, so we should act like an SME.
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"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
So that's exactly what the article discuss.
New Atheism came into its own during the Global War on Terror, when secular neoconservatives like Hitchens realized that the arguments being used against Anglo religious fundamentalism could be wielded very conveniently against Islamic radicalism.
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Pretty sure neither Stalin nor Mao were religious. And Humanists UK are just insufferable with their endless complaining about church schools.
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Pinnacle Monzonite
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Church schools are stupid to be fair, my kids can't go to their local secondary school unless I pretend to be Catholic (technically I suppose I am but I haven't been to mass since I was 16 and don't believe any of it).
Almost all of the people I know whose kids are going to that school are faking religion to get in, the school knows it, the priest knows it. Who is it supposed to benefit from that ridiculous system?
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There was no religion in the communist countries which is why many Polish people rebelled by being catholic.
I've argued before that the Kims are essentially a religion in North Korea, but a lot of religious people do not accept this.
Church schools should be complained about.
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For now at least, swapping between my old and new "fancy" road bike wheels, requires faffing with the rear caliper alignment.
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In the era of the nation state, I generally think the role of religion is overplayed significantly.
I have recollections of writing an essay to this effect which I think was quite persuasive (aka well marked) at the time.
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I dunno, US politics seems to have quite a big religious component doesn't it? Certainly in some states.
In the UK, I very rarely meet anyone who is particularly religious (and most of them are not christian), which makes it even more odd that we have bishops in the House of Lords and large numbers of state church schools.
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"The kids getting a bit more money spent on their school" feels like the obvious answer.
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Pinnacle Monzonite
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It was suppressed, but not sure it's accurate to say that there was no religion. My point was that the absence of God doesn't seem to have prevented these guys killing tens of millions. I'm never sure whether people complain about the existence of Church schools or the fact that they haven't got into them.
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Pinnacle Monzonite
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So it's a bribe to feign religious belief/punishment for not believing?
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I wouldnt send my kids to a faith school but it annoys me that they exist and therefore the only way I could get my daughters into my local state funded secondary school is by pretending to be Catholic.
I didn't apply to the faith school, my kids will be travelling to a school in the next town.
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Eh? Assume you are talking about a VA school. They can set their own admission criteria. The school was set up by the Church and the LA gives it some funding in return for reducing the load on the other state schooling they provide.
Before the Academies programme almost 2/5 of faith schools were Voluntary Controlled. In contrast to VA and Foundation faith schools, VC schools have their admissions policies set by their local authority responsible for education – it is their admissions authority. The local authority can grant them an admissions policy that prioritises children on religious grounds if the school is oversubscribed, but about three quarters of local authorities do not allow it.
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Pinnacle Monzonite
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It doesn't really who sets to policy, the end result is the same. My kids could go to the local school, but only if I pretend to be Catholic.
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Lots of schools have entry criteria. The Catholic church built the school to provide education to the children of Catholic parents. Seems perfectly reasonable that they prioritise Catholics. I don't see how this is much different from wealthier people buying up all the houses within the catchment area of a good Comprehensive.
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Pinnacle Monzonite
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It would be less objectionable if they weren't state funded, or the state contributed equally to all schools including private ones
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I think in this case the church handed over the shell of an old convent to be made into a school, dunno who paid for all the new buildings in the 100 years since but the lions share (90%) of the capital costs plus all of the running costs come from the government I believe so I guess the buildings are included in capital costs.
It's just a mad system
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If selection on religious grounds is being properly 'enforced', then we end up with segregated education, which IMHO, is not a good thing. If people want to teach their children to follow a particular religion, fine, that can be done at home, or in the church, but not with state funding.
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So state withdraws funding > school closes > other surrounding schools become oversubscribed > everyone has to travel further and there's less money to go round but no nasty religion. High fives all round.
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Pinnacle Monzonite
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Or school just stops selecting based on the parents religion and stays open. Non religious folks who live nearby can go to their closest school and so don't have to travel so far.
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1/4 of my kid’s class is Muslim and it’s supposed to be a CofE church school. I think the religious bit is pretty minimal tbh
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Same at mine, less than 1/4 but I think that is more local demographic than school policy.
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All the more reason to drop the religious connection then?
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I would prefer faith schools didn't select on the basis of parental attendance. No point preaching to the concerted and A few extra souls to save if they like. I think everyone benefits from exposure to different views. But if a school is oversubscribed you have to select somehow and I'm not sure who can afford the extra 10% to live with in the chosen catchment is any more valid than who attends church for the 6months prior to applying.
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Pinnacle Monzonite
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Unless you're trying to say that a bunch of militant atheists brought down the Twin towers, the pic I posted is pretty accurate 🙂
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