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23 Apr 05:40am

Filed under: Education, Ethics, Peter Jensen, Religion

Let’s for a moment accept that the majority of parents think that there should be time set aside in primary school years for kids to learn about values.

You don't need God to teach kids right from wrong.

But what if the only choice parents had was for their child to either learn about one religion’s view of the world, and from that religion’s proselytisers, or to have a ‘dead’, fill-in time, learn nothing, non-class session?

What if the school system, in allocating time for learning stories about values, favoured a religion with a story centred on a God who needed a human sacrifice before He(!) could fully relate to his creatures?

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