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[Emma]

My school was really quite religious. We had to go to the Priory quite a lot for services etc. Did the pupils behave in a manner which shows that they were from a religious school? We did not.

[E*F*4L]

Gahhhhh. Lumping them all together like that doesn't help either.

what do you mean ?

in regards to my post ?

i didn't mean to make it sound like i thought they were all like the Branch Davidian cult, they just seem to be you know strange, some of them ones in the USA are really out there :eek:

[Rob]

I go to the sixth form of a religious school despite nor being religious myself so I have to stand through the prayer at the end of form whilst looking around awkwardly and I have to go to mass at any Catholic event. In one of them we had to line up and have wet ash put on our head which I quickly removed which I got some stick for. But it was windy and my head was getting cold so I didn't see the problem. But in brief, form what I've seen religion has become a political weapon to control the masses and faith is dead. I could expand but we'd be here all day. All I'm going to say is the "religious" war between the Muslims and Jews over holy land. Would God want that? If he does then he is a bit of a sicko and I'd rather there be no God at all than the one that creates wars to be honest.

[sinister]

There was a very interesting documentary ages back investigating religion and religious visions . Trying to sum up in a few lines is difficult, but the conclusions came down to once again, how the brain works. They had a group of volunteers ranging from no godders to full on godders. They all had a spell in an isolation chamber that isolated them from all outside stimuli, sound, radiowaves etc. On their heads they wore an apparatus that recorded brain activity and generated magnetic fields targeted at specific areas of the brain. The full on godders experienced religious happenings and visions in the chamber, while the non godders did not.

It went into a lot more detail than the scratchy bits I can recall and was a very interesting take on the subject.

The poll results actually gave me a bit of a lift. I have nothing against people wanting to follow their various gods, but I do object to it being taught in schools. If the religion is so strong and righteous why do they find the need to indoctrinate children from an early age? Give them the opportunity to choose for themselves later on in life.

I'd all so like to see all the special status that religions get removed.

[Viv]

I would say I am spiritual. I have tried to be religious, but it's one of the most difficult things to practice. Like Emma though, I believe there is something up there, but it's hard to practice religion consistently when you see the kind of mess the World is in presently.