
From my friend misfortune I started to understand fully Richard Dawkins’s anger toward religion and why religion is the heart of world problem? Forget war, terrorism and such crap, religion is the root of all evil.
Few month back my best friend living in London told me he is going to start the secondary school application process for his 11 year old son and we were all happy, but after applying to 6 secondary school though only 2 near his home, like 2mn walk he started to realized it isn’t going to be easy.
Why? Because the school near home is a Presbyterian school and the other nearest is a catholic school.
On the form for both schools there is a place for your father to fill for the catholic school and your pastor for the Presbyterian ones.
My friend son was baptised in catholic and go to church sometimes but not every Sunday so he took both forms to the priest of his church and asked if he could sign the priest/pastor part, the father agreed to filled only the catholic school form as he is not allowed to sign for the Presbyterian school pastor part which I think is normal.
So couldn’t find any pastor to sign the form he took it back to the school and explained his dilemma and the admission lady said its fine although a pastor signature would be great.
Few weeks later he gets a letter from the school for the kid to come for an entry test which the kid went to and did well
Last week he get the admission letter and surprised the kid didn’t get into the school near his home but one a bit far away and in the letter they give you only one week to accept it or refuse it but again as advised in the letter it’s better to accept it and maybe call the admission team of others school and find out why you get refused and see if you can get into the school waiting list
So he called the school admission team to find out why they refused the son and you will not believe the reason and it’s really shocking:
The simple reason why the kid didn’t get to the school is because no pastor signed his form!!
We all thought the kid failed the test but no.
He explain to the lady that the school is very near , just 1mn walk from him and he would like the kid to get in there , so she said they sent a letter and he can appeal and see.
Now my question is why should we bring religion or faith to school?
Don’t get me wrong, I am a Christian but I believe religion shouldn’t be mixed with school and even more, need to be member of church to be able to get into a school.
Faith school for me is even worse than a terrorist group.
Please tell me if you have had to deal with these too or anything like it in the comment and please keep the comments related tothe topic.