The wife is attending an affiliated church only to get the little darlings into the preferred school. Atheist dad probably $weetened the application as well. What a sham from all parties. Here’s hoping #1 son gets the calling.
Mrs Miliband, a violinist, started attending a church affiliated to the school two years before the boy gained his place
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Perhaps the Holy Spirit is at work here.
We have a similar case on FR:
To: AmusedBystander
“I would worry more about imparting that “godless” part on them, just in case you are wrong.”
Well, here’s the deal. The atheist I know don’t care what other people believe, nor do they try to dissuade anyone. My parents are both atheists, yet they sent all of their children, including myself, to Sunday School at the Presbyterian church near our home. Every Sunday.
I asked them about that recently. They’re 81 years old now, and are atheists (and Republicans). My mom said that they though it was important for us, as children, to be thoroughly exposed to the dominant religion of this country. She said that we’d make up our own minds when we were old enough to think about it.
She was right. I’m the only atheist among their children. I attended church until I was about 20...every Sunday, and sang in the choir, played piano and did other music at the church.
As a middle-schooler, I got a really nice award for having memorized the the first four chapters of the New Testament.
In fact, I was admitted to Wheaton College, with a strong chance of going into the ministry. But, I decided to become an Electronics Engineer, so I went to another school.
After a couple of more years, I stopped being able to believe in supernatural entities. That doesn’t mean that I lack moral values, though. I have the same ones you do, I’m betting.
49 posted on Wednesday, March 15, 2006 2:58:36 PM by MineralMan (godless atheist)
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forced? really? i see it as "settling..."
Ping Ping Ping... can you hear me now...
in third world where i lived many Chrsitian expats went to Jewish schools or maybe Jews went to Christian schools whichever being the only decent choices..I know in Belo Horizonte the best school was Jewish....Santa Marta same thing..
in the South where I grew up all the tribe kids went to Christian private school...they got library time when Jesus speakers came...we had loads of them at Jackson Prep when i was there...maybe 8-10%...the public schools were 95% black war zones....we have one freeper here who survived it..he musta been pretty tuff kid
getting yer kid a decent booklearning transcends religion or lack of....this was easier before political correctness