The funding arrangement may be ill advised, you only have to look at the fundamentalism intrusions into the Texas school system to see that. However the author does no favours to himself with the rabid and unbridled attacking nature of this article. Any person of even moderate persuasion would stop read after the paragraph or two. This article is written to an audience, a radical anti-theologian audience, rather than to a point.

Very well said Glen Coulton.
The legally enforced availability of so called 'scripture' lessons - ie religious progaganda - in our already under-funded public schools is bad enough, but the acceptance of strings attached donations of this kind represents a new low in an already embattled, once proud, public school system. Already as I understand it, the school head-person has had to order the removal of a prominately displayed crucifix. The christian fundamentalist right have been given a stunning victory and yet another publicly funded forum to spread pernicious archaic rubbish by being allowed, in true Jesuit form, access to our children at a time when their brains are not fully formed, and have yet to develop a functional critical faculty. This is no more than government approved child abuse, and is to be condemned by all concientious and informed parents and citizens. By allowing this abominable outcome, the virtually defunct NSW state government is desperately scraping the bottom of the voting barrel and to this end, many unfortunate children at this ill-advised school will carry a load of ignorance and church imposed guilt into and throughout their adult lives.

relax guys. As more and more families have been destroyed by any lack of decency promoted by secularism we see a rapid increase (even among god deniers) sending their kids to private schools despite the financial sacrifices they have to make.

Runner, why don't you do one?

You knock secularism yet you appear to uphold the fantasy of religion and approve of it being pushed into the minds of innocent, gullible children.

You don't appear to realize that there are many secularists who have a very moral stance, one that doesn't rely on silly promises of life after death to uphold.

Stephen Hawking has just proved that God doesn't exist, that the world and the universe arose out of forces of gravity. Perhaps you should do yourself a favour and investigate this concept rather than promote the existence of a God who creates endless misery for his 'creations' via earthquakes, floods, plagues, droughts, cancer, intellectual and physical disabilities, etc.

http://www.dangerouscreation.com

@ runner, god of you to acknowledge "decency promoted by secularism" - why do you think those families lack it?

David G

I must say your website is very pretty but also very misleading and deceitful. You know as well as I do that even new agers hearts are full of greed and corruption just like everyone else. You actually need a Saviour just like I do. Look at the violence at many anti war rallies and you will see what is in men's hearts. Stephen Hawkins is one in a long line of men who are absolutely pathetic in the denial of a Creator. No doubt many desperate to confirm their prejudices and dogmas will once again be wetting their pants with excitement with the latest god denying thesis. Thankfully any real truth seeker rather than fable believer will see through this. When pseudo scientist start acting in truth rather trying to confirm their dogma they might get somewhere.