The Comic "The Punishment" Again not really showing teachers as profesionals.

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Are we seeing a theme here ?

The monumental arrogance of Christians never ceases to amaze me. To accuse secularists of being "militant atheists" is the height of hypocrisy. Since the birth of Chistianity its followers have believed that they have a god-given right and duty to convert every other human on the planet to their own religion, and they have been, and still are, prepared to use any means to achieve that goal. That's what I call militancy. Secularists don't care what other people believe or what they teach their own children. All we want is the right to choose what we believe, and what should be taught to our children. That does not seem like an unreasonable request to me.

"Onward Christian Soldiers"
"The Salvation Army"
"Soldiers of the Cross"
"Defender of the Faith "

II Timothy - 2:3-4
"You therefore must endure hardship as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. No one engaged in warfare entangles himself with the affairs of this life, that he may please him who enlisted him as a soldier."

And they complain atheists are militant ??

Dear, dear the omniscient atheists, humanists, nihilists, freethinkers?, black hole philosophers...whatever, are up in arms again. Unfortunately the sad fact is that if you want to ban religious thought from public schools you will have to do it indiscriminately. Considering that certain other religions (one in particular will remain nameless) aren't the soft target that Christianity is, you haven’t got a hope in Hell of succeeding lest you run the risk of offending a potential suicide bomber. So put up or shut up. And on the issue of imposing a world view on others, your hypocrisy reeks. Most Christians don’t accept evolution but do you see them trying to impose a ban on it being taught? No. As usual the Left is showing itself the enemy of freedom of thought and personal belief.

Hahaha I misread that SRI.

I always thought it was SRE, as in Special Religious Education. When I saw SRI, I read Special Religious Indoctrination.

So honest! I thought.

Easy solution. Open churches on Sunday so those that are so inclined can get their children some of that there indoctrination.

Cant believe nobody thought of that before.

BTW: I don't see that the children who sit out of SRE are wasting their time. Time is never wasted. That argument rubbish. Most of the school day kids sit there doing very little and supervised by a disinterested adult. They can get a head start on the current trend of 4 hours homework.

But, in saying that, in a secular system, if there is any religious education being taught, it should be about all religions (Including Pastafarianism). Anything else is just an unfair monopoly.

I'd like to echo some other comments here - this article is either deliberately or ignorantly disingenuous. There are no official, front-line opponents of SRE that want to see the history and cultural significance Christianity or any other religion surgically removed from the lives of students. Opponents seek education ABOUT religion, not instruction on how to adhere to any given religion. These classes should be available to all students regardless of the religious beliefs of their parents (or lack thereof). The child of Catholic Parents sitting in the same room as the child of Muslim parents and the child of Atheist parents all learning about each other fairly. Surely THAT is the way to understanding, not to give one religion preferential status and excluding all the other kids from the lesson.

None of us want it gone - we want it to be fair and valuable, equally so for every child. How is it that this is viewed as a bad thing?

And a quick word for Anthm1 - Opponents DO want all religious instruction gone indiscriminately, Islamic religious instruction included. No matter how ubiquitous its majority, Christianity has never really gotten over it's persecution complex, has it?