Bible in schools

Interesting story in the UK today; Richard Dawkins approves of government plan to put Bible in all state schools.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/may/19/richard-dawkins-backs...

Prompted two thoughts. One is that there's a lot of complaints from christian groups here that they are persecuted by militant secularists, and this shows that atheism is essentially a tolerant outlook on life.

Two is that it's perfectly right for kids to learn about religions, as opposed to being indoctrinate. I agree with Dawkins on this, and say all schools should also have the Torah, Quran, Bhagavad Gita, etc ... although I would stop short on the works of Alistair Crowley.

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Comment by Katrin Schwarz on May 21, 2012 at 7:06am: Sorry for boring you if you have heard this quote many times before. It is however very true in my personal experience.

The best cure for Christianity is reading the Bible. - Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain).

Comment by Gary Mueller on May 21, 2012 at 5:19pm: Why not bibles in school? The Communist Manifesto, Mein Kaumph, The book of Mormon, Dick and Jane go to the zoo, Cosmos and the Illiad.

They all have a place in schools its called the library

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