Here’s one for you ‘tolerant’ christians. How about I ask you to pay out of your own pocket to fund an atheist school? This school will teach Evolution as a core subject and will base it’s entire policy around the principles of Atheism. This school, by the way is a very high performer, not because it is Atheist, but because it delivers great education.
But then I tell you that your children are not welcome to be educated at this school. You probably wouldn’t want your kids to go to this school being an Atheist school, but it’s very tempting given it’s wonderfully bright educational record. But there are only three other schools to choose from: a scientologist school, a communist school and an islamic school. All these schools are state funded – that is, you help support them with your taxes. But your child is not welcome to any of them unless you get a signed letter from a leading representative of an affiliate of either respective organisation testifying to your allegiance.
This is what happens in the UK when you try to enrol your child into a catholic state-funded primary school. Isn’t it mad that I have to donate my own money, by order of the law, to the funding of schools who teach a faith-based belief that not only do I not believe in but to which I am diametrically opposed? Not only this, I have to help support hundreds of these schools and other schools of conflicting philosophies none of which my child has a fair chance of attending. Even worse, while the British state forces me to support these schools it refuses to provide an alternative atheist school for my child to attend.
That is christian justice and tolerance for you.
You need to live in the USA. It works the other way around here.
What do you mean? You have state-funded Atheist schools?
Actually we do have state-funded atheist schools called public schools and Universities. They teach evolution, hand out condoms, support abortions, and so forth. You should check it out. All of these are funded by the government and we the tax-payers have to pay for it. Another thing, our religious schools and specialized schools really not get much support from our government. There is always some kind of bending the “religious rule” to get money from government.