Boy banned from school's festive [Christmas] party for having no belief in God

Scotsman ^ | 22nd December 2007 | Stuart Patterson

[do the dhue]

It seems to me that this is a public, not a private school. Does anyone know if that’s true?

jwalsh07, can you answer the above question?

[tioga]

This is a simple matter of a mother getting her way and then deciding it wasn't what she wanted..........perhaps Christmas in her house is done without Christ, but not in my house....and not in that school.....I would NOT force God down someone's throat when I have been asked to refrain from doing so.....the school obeyed her commands -- I am sure on a day to day basis this boy is treated with Christian kindness.....but his mother forbade them from teaching her child about Christ...so be it.

Food for thought: if any place will not welcome you or listen to you, shake the dust off your feet when you leave, as a testimony against them." Mark 6:11

Hardly sounds like Jesus was saying to subject people to Him when they didn't wish it.......and Jesus NEVER told us to take Him out of Christmas, change it to a holiday celebration to include everyone so that no one will throw a temper tantrum and get their feelings hurt.........you act as if the mother had not made that choice herself. In the end, for her other son the school changed it's policy........I would not have done that. This mother wants to decide what happens in that school no matter what......in the end she is taking away all the decisions from the other parents to have their children have a Christ-filled Christmas. Sad. It's much worse in THIS country though.......MUCH worse.

[Misterioso]

You missed the point of the question. Do you have an answer to it? BTW, it’s not about intolerance but intelligence.

[do the dhue]

I got your question and I thought it was a god one. I can’t answer it and I was just adding that they are the intolerant ones. For me to answer that question, I would have to think like a atheist. I am not willing to blow 90% of my brains out and pull the spine out of my back so I can think like an atheist and answer your question.

Again, good question and I don’t know why.

[D Rider]

The greek alphabet is derived from the Hebrew. No J there either. Yeshua=Joshua=Jesus.

Hence the term transliteration.(re: post 197)

[Misterioso]

Thanks for your honesty, at least.

[Between the Lines]

It seems to me that this is a public, not a private school. Does anyone know if that’s true?

Cluny Primary School, is council run school. It is a Mixed school of Non Denominational religion.

In the UK a council run school is the equivalent to our public schools. They do not separate religion and state or religion and schools there. So this is a religious school, but it is non Denominational.

A private school there would be called an independent school.