“There is all the difference in the world between teaching children about religion and handing them over to be taught by the religious.”
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Most people come to fear not death itself, but the many terrible ways of dying.
But instead of standing up for reason, our government is handing education over to the world of faith.
Is anyone serious about the politics of happiness? David Cameron dipped a toe in the water, using the word lightly, but denying the hard policies it implies. Labour shies away from it, but should take up the challenge.
How do you make any sense of history, art or literature without knowing the stories and iconography of your own culture and all the world's main religions?
