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BBC Suffolk - Belief in a secular society
A new feature on BBC Radio Suffolk’s website by Andrew Woodger includes references to Humanism.
More people have been going to church in Suffolk, but the diocese has concerns that it may be a blip in the face of long-term decline. However, Muslims say they're buoyant in the county, as do the humanists who don't have any faith in a god.
We're constantly hearing that religion, particularly the Christian Church of England, is in decline with fewer bums-on-pews. At the same time there's been the dramatic success of books such as Richard Dawkins's The God Delusion and claims that popular films/books such as Philip Pullman's The Golden Compass, or even Harry Potter, are spreading an anti-religious message.
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Brilliant! What is?
Margaret's comment "It would be much better if we substituted it [religious education] for 'philosophical enquiry' so that children are taught to think rather than to believe."
I was thinking only this morning about revising a message that I keep in "drafts" in case someone asks how I became a non-believer.
Part of it was hearing commentators on the TV and radio harping on about the terrible indoctrination of children that went on in places like the USSR, North Korea, China, etc. And I thought (dangerous thing, thinking!?!) "hang on a minute, doesn't this remind me of what happens in Sunday School, and Assembly, and RI (which became RK, which became RE)?" Oh, yes it does!
It is regretable, Linn, that you apparently had such a negative experience in Sunday School and Assembly. "Love your neighbor, love you enemies, do good to all, especially to the household of faith, put on compassion, kindness, lowliness, meekness and patience, forbearing one another, and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving one another, and above all these put on love which binds everything together in perfect harmony..." I hardly see how you can see these principles as harmful. I would like to see all our children brainwashed with these ideas.
RickSavedByGrace
Rick, one of my Sunday School teachers took the "love thy neighbour" bit too literally. He groped me under my vest when I was about 10 and a bit. So much for setting an example.