Friday, June 08, 2007

Christianity in the Classroom

A teaching assistant disciplined for refusing to help a child read a Harry Potter book because it "glorified witchcraft" is claiming a £50,000 pay-out for religious discrimination. I bet she wouldn't have objected to kids reading from the Old Testament - which in various passages extolls ethnic cleansing, rape, misogyny and infanticide - or the more benign 'truths' of Jesus Christ: the resurrection of the dead, turning wine into water, walking on the sea and feeding five thousand people with a few bits of bread and a couple of fish.

It goes without saying the reaction of certain newspapers would have been very different if the case had involved atheists and RE lessons.

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