Hey Ian, I can only say meh! Or perhaps whateverer!
What I was disagreeing with was more of Fidds generalisations, and talk about mental boxes. It is complete rot really. I mean can you Ian not place yourself outside of your normal mental box and within that of another at least for a little while? I know I can, and I belive anybody can. It's more to do with labels than anything really. Atheist and Theist are handy labels but only for decideng what each camps belifes, or disbelives or haolds no active belife in the question of God. That is it that is all, any other claim that Atheist or this, or Theists are that, is just rubbish, and so I called it. It is interesting though what you say about RE teachers, tell me what is the percentage size of RE teachers in the UK that you have looked at? As the one in my boys school is certianly a raveing Christian. And so to truth. I find it only fair that I point out that Sikhi makes the claim that all religions are valid and ways to God. So that one at least does not 'alone hold the keys to truth'. On 15 Mar, 12:41, Ian Pollard <[email protected]> wrote: > The RE syllabus in the UK covers the history, scriptures, and the culture of > many religions. Having it taught by a theist poses greater problems of > impartiality than those faced by an atheist or agnostic. Christians, Jews, > and Muslims have a storied history of killing each other. Add to this the > belief of each religion that they alone hold the keys to truth, you can see > the problems really begin to mount up for belivers. An outside perspective > is probably the best perspective for impartiality. > > As an aside... My previous work with SACREs and schools here in the UK has > yet to throw up a single RE teacher who was not an atheist. There was one > lady who veered between agnostic and atheist -- claiming to be agnostic to > be polite to her students and not upset her friends, but, in private, she > was 100% atheist. > > Ian -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/minds-eye?hl=en.
