http://www.redpepper.org.uk/jeremy-hardy-thinks-about-genes/ Red Pepper Wed, 18 Sep 2013 17:39:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 http://www.redpepper.org.uk/jeremy-hardy-thinks-about-genes/#comment-1617 Dan Tue, 11 Jan 2011 20:09:50 +0000 http://rpnew.nfshost.com/?p=2302#comment-1617 On this topic, nobody (including JH) ever gets beyond the point where if you don’t believe in a god it’s clearly stupid to educate children to do so, and where if you *do* then it doesn’t make much sense to let such an apparently supreme fact be anything but supreme. The whole point about being liberal, I take it, is the restriction of the state to matters of harm. Belief in a god is not directly linked to any kind of harmful lifestyle (for the person thus inculcated or others around them), so I can’t see how liberality would allow the state to act against it in any way. If it’s not liberal principles then it’s a mere clash of opinion, in which case I stand as a liberal to defend each from the other equally. Having said that, a totally mixed school (with *lots* of religions, not none) sounds like fantastic training for real life – but that’s not to say the power of the state should make it so.

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