Tue 11th Mar 2008
How do you solve a problem such as "British Citizenship" and how to encourage us all to feel like we're British? Well you force them to stay in school or training until 18, at which point you "encourage" them to swear an oath to the country in one form or another before presenting them with a series of choices whereby the only realistic one is to sign up to a national ID database. From then on you're golden with plenty of opportunities to keep that individual under check and "British", in fact the only thing missing is a microchip for the brain that forces them to stand up and put their hand to their heart every time "God Save the Queen" is heard.
Wed 23rd Jan 2008
When starting to peg down a few more blogs and aggregators a few days back to increase my scope of reading I came across this blog that simultaneously tries to condemn the Labour government for trying to "abolish" mass worship and at the same time heap praise on faith schools and, therefore, Christianity. It's the sort of blog that just makes me angry to read it and gives me a desire to find out more with the hopes of just completely being able to discount what bollocks it being said. So with that, here we are, and it's time to look deeper into Cramner's claims.
The facts, in reality, are these: Faith in schools is doing nothing to stem the flow of individuals "losing" religion nor the drop in perception about how important religion is. Faith is not intrinsically linked to morals, and in fact history will show that for every moral good dead there is a quite evil bad one to counter it with the Christian church. And finally, the big myth, faith schools do not offer your child a better opportunity at education unless you were already predisposed for good educational achievement in the first place due to your social and economic background. So, kindly, take your sanctimonious bollocks and shove it up your collective worship.
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About Lee: Former students' union president and intermitent blogger since the turn of the century, who's aim is to promote objective thinking and a break from partisan politics when discussing the issues of the day. 