Is it brainwashing, or just the Way?

[DanaC]

*nods*. We've had an increase in that sort of political christianity over here as well. The religious right have been mobilising to form lobby groups and so on. There are a number of schools that are run along faith lines that deny evolution and teach creationism instead and which are linked to these politically active christian groups.

Politics and religion is an admixture I find very disturbing. One of the inconsistencies in the British political system to my mind, is the acceptance of church and state links. On the one hand we're a modern representative democracy whose royal house is a mere figurehead, on the other hand our state schools are legally obliged to be run 'along broadly Christian principles' and all schools perform acts of collective worship. As has been mentioned in a previous thread, the end result is that we're far more irreligious as a nation than America, in which the division between church and state is sacrosanct, but it doesn't make it right.