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Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet
Indeed. We need to start with OUR leaders telling people that all religions are lies, there are no gods and stop the rot at school level.
By Cameron pretending to be a Christian and Obama we just perpetuate the problem.
The Elephant with the bomb jacket in the room is religion.
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Whilst I agree on principle, in practice it's probably a pretty bad idea. For some unfathomable reason, there are a
lot of religious people of various description in the world, and they tend not to take kindly to anyone pointing out how improbable their beliefs are.
You can't stop it "at school level" because these tales are passed on through families and have little to do with the education system. I know loads of kids of mostly non-religious parents who went to Catholic school and only came out even more sure that it's nonsense. I also know people from some bat**** crazy religious backgrounds (one girl from a branch of Christianity with < 100 members, founded by her own great grandfather... srsly) who went through an almost entirely non-religious school system and still "believes" to this day.
To be honest I don't know how you stop it. Parents teach it to their kids, who teach it to their kids, and so on and so forth and once someone believes in these things, it's pretty much impossible to turn them away from it.