Recently, the UK government (in the guise of the aptly named Ed Balls) and a bunch of mutually incompatible (are there any other kind?) religious groups decided to get together and tell the rest of us that they want to control more state schools, and that we should all pay for them, regardless of whether we’re religious or not, and the government published a report about it (PDF).

They also decided that the status quo - any non-religious school should still be subject to current laws - which the report summarises as:

All maintained schools are required to have a daily act of collective worship. In schools without a religious character, this must be wholly or mainly of a broadly Christian nature; while in schools with a religious character, collective worship may be in accordance with the tenets and practices of the religious designation of the school. The Government recognises the value of collective worship in schools in contributing to young people’s spiritual, social, moral and cultural development and to exploring social and moral issues and their own beliefs

should remain. I guess the christians must have played their “the UK is a christian country” card to win over the other groups.

Anyway, in the spirit of this, we’ve decided to come up with a handbook for non-religious schools, which contains some choice christian moral teachings. We present an extract in the form of a page from this book below.

We’re looking to get this published for the beginning of the 2008/9 school year. We think it’ll be a massive hit because, as everyone knows, one can’t have morality without religion, and the christian scripture is just so replete with prime examples.

Thankfully, the NSS and the ATL step in to the fray in an attempt to put this nonsense to bed.

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