Loch Ness monster exists

On a similar note (but nowhere near the epic scale of neanderthalism described by the OP), my 11 year old son goes to a C of E primary. He's always been an avid reader and has been reading the Harry Potter books for about 4 years. Anyway, whenhe joined the C of E school 3 years ago he took in a Harry Potter to read but was informed by his head teacher that the HP series of books was not allowed in school because they advocate Witchcraft and magic.

How the fuck can a book 'advocate' something that is patently impossible? Its a fucking fantasy story! (much like The Good Book I suppose then).

So, with me being concerned that his young mind might be tarnished by this nutter's quasi-fundamental clap trap I bought him Richard Dawkins' "The Magic of Reality" for his birthday. Its a kids book that argues that the beauty and majesty of the natural world and universe far outweighs any stories about miracles and, lets be honest here, mythical gods.

I didn't intend him to take the book to school but he's a clever little bugger and likes nothing more than winning an argument so he took it upon himself to take it to school and he made a point of being seen reading it. Inevitably, this resulted in the head teacher telling him that she didn't think it was a suitable book to have in school. NOT SUITABLE?!?!? Its basically a scientific text, BASED ON EVIDENCE AND FACT!

The fact that my son was willing to challenge the views of his headmaster made me proud enough but I was positively gushing when he came home from school a few weeks ago: as a treat for the soon-to-leave year 6 pupils the school had arranged for some activities. One of these was a magician. So, in front of his teacher and classmates he put his hand up and asked the headteacher why she had booked a magician when he'd been told that he couldn't even read about magic in the Potter books.

Her response: a scowl and no explaination given

Love you son ;-)
 
No6 said:
On a similar note (but nowhere near the epic scale of neanderthalism described by the OP), my 11 year old son goes to a C of E primary. He's always been an avid reader and has been reading the Harry Potter books for about 4 years. Anyway, whenhe joined the C of E school 3 years ago he took in a Harry Potter to read but was informed by his head teacher that the HP series of books was not allowed in school because they advocate Witchcraft and magic.

How the fuck can a book 'advocate' something that is patently impossible? Its a fucking fantasy story! (much like The Good Book I suppose then).

So, with me being concerned that his young mind might be tarnished by this nutter's quasi-fundamental clap trap I bought him Richard Dawkins' "The Magic of Reality" for his birthday. Its a kids book that argues that the beauty and majesty of the natural world and universe far outweighs any stories about miracles and, lets be honest here, mythical gods.

I didn't intend him to take the book to school but he's a clever little bugger and likes nothing more than winning an argument so he took it upon himself to take it to school and he made a point of being seen reading it. Inevitably, this resulted in the head teacher telling him that she didn't think it was a suitable book to have in school. NOT SUITABLE?!?!? Its basically a scientific text, BASED ON EVIDENCE AND FACT!

The fact that my son was willing to challenge the views of his headmaster made me proud enough but I was positively gushing when he came home from school a few weeks ago: as a treat for the soon-to-leave year 6 pupils the school had arranged for some activities. One of these was a magician. So, in front of his teacher and classmates he put his hand up and asked the headteacher why she had booked a magician when he'd been told that he couldn't even read about magic in the Potter books.

Her response: a scowl and no explaination given

Love you son ;-)
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Fantastic!
 
No6 said:
On a similar note (but nowhere near the epic scale of neanderthalism described by the OP), my 11 year old son goes to a C of E primary. He's always been an avid reader and has been reading the Harry Potter books for about 4 years. Anyway, whenhe joined the C of E school 3 years ago he took in a Harry Potter to read but was informed by his head teacher that the HP series of books was not allowed in school because they advocate Witchcraft and magic.

How the fuck can a book 'advocate' something that is patently impossible? Its a fucking fantasy story! (much like The Good Book I suppose then).

So, with me being concerned that his young mind might be tarnished by this nutter's quasi-fundamental clap trap I bought him Richard Dawkins' "The Magic of Reality" for his birthday. Its a kids book that argues that the beauty and majesty of the natural world and universe far outweighs any stories about miracles and, lets be honest here, mythical gods.

I didn't intend him to take the book to school but he's a clever little bugger and likes nothing more than winning an argument so he took it upon himself to take it to school and he made a point of being seen reading it. Inevitably, this resulted in the head teacher telling him that she didn't think it was a suitable book to have in school. NOT SUITABLE?!?!? Its basically a scientific text, BASED ON EVIDENCE AND FACT!

The fact that my son was willing to challenge the views of his headmaster made me proud enough but I was positively gushing when he came home from school a few weeks ago: as a treat for the soon-to-leave year 6 pupils the school had arranged for some activities. One of these was a magician. So, in front of his teacher and classmates he put his hand up and asked the headteacher why she had booked a magician when he'd been told that he couldn't even read about magic in the Potter books.

Her response: a scowl and no explaination given

Love you son ;-)
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Good one.

So parting the sea by raising your staff isnt some kind of Harry Potter shit?
 
Youngsters will be told that if it can be proved that dinosaurs walked the earth at the same time as man, then Darwinism is fatally flawed.
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I....umm...what?

Or more to the point, why is Darwinism dead if dinosaurs and man walked the earth at the same time?

I'll admit that I'm not even sure what they mean as "Darwinism".<br /><br />-- Wed Jun 27, 2012 4:51 pm --<br /><br />This is a dinosaur:

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No6 said:
On a similar note (but nowhere near the epic scale of neanderthalism described by the OP), my 11 year old son goes to a C of E primary. He's always been an avid reader and has been reading the Harry Potter books for about 4 years. Anyway, whenhe joined the C of E school 3 years ago he took in a Harry Potter to read but was informed by his head teacher that the HP series of books was not allowed in school because they advocate Witchcraft and magic.

How the fuck can a book 'advocate' something that is patently impossible? Its a fucking fantasy story! (much like The Good Book I suppose then).

So, with me being concerned that his young mind might be tarnished by this nutter's quasi-fundamental clap trap I bought him Richard Dawkins' "The Magic of Reality" for his birthday. Its a kids book that argues that the beauty and majesty of the natural world and universe far outweighs any stories about miracles and, lets be honest here, mythical gods.

I didn't intend him to take the book to school but he's a clever little bugger and likes nothing more than winning an argument so he took it upon himself to take it to school and he made a point of being seen reading it. Inevitably, this resulted in the head teacher telling him that she didn't think it was a suitable book to have in school. NOT SUITABLE?!?!? Its basically a scientific text, BASED ON EVIDENCE AND FACT!

The fact that my son was willing to challenge the views of his headmaster made me proud enough but I was positively gushing when he came home from school a few weeks ago: as a treat for the soon-to-leave year 6 pupils the school had arranged for some activities. One of these was a magician. So, in front of his teacher and classmates he put his hand up and asked the headteacher why she had booked a magician when he'd been told that he couldn't even read about magic in the Potter books.

Her response: a scowl and no explaination given

Love you son ;-)
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Post of the Day!!
 
the opus dei and creationist movement are scarier than the CIA .
The American Constitution specifically separates state, education and church, bans faith schools yet somehow these people are getting round it.
The leaders of this cult are far from stupid, they cannot possibly believe what they preach, so what is their agenda?
Small town America is fertile ground for hocus-pocus religious extremists, very worrying that a nuclear force could have a born-again evangelist with a finger on the button.
America's foreign aid programme is not altruistic generosity when one of the conditions is banning abortion. And that is not a recent thing and involves influence from Washington at the very top.
Opus Dei answers to Rome and has influential financiers and politicians amongst it's members, from many western countries, the lack of coverage of the child abuse scandal is testament to how powerful these people are
 
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