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**finnmontserrat** · 10-17-2006, 07:54 PM

I wonder if you think that the education system will be next to seek to remove all Christian content outside of RE lessons?

I thought they already did that? Certainly seemed that way when I attended Secondary School here in the UK; and R.E. was treated as a pretty insignificant part of the syllabus.

There was, of course, mention of Christmas and we got time off school at Pascha; but no mention was ever made of their significance.

In fact, I remember being told to remove a Cross I was wearing around my neck (like BA, the school had a strict jewellary policy). When I enquired as to why my Muslim friends were allowed to wear hijab (even niqab were allowed) and mosque hats, but I couldn't wear a Cross, I was condescendingly told that "there is nothing in the Christian religion that says you have to wear a Cross."

I had not yet been received into the Church at that time, and so I didn't see wearing a Cross as the obligation I see it as today, but it nevertheless struck me as being very strange.

In XC,
Kris

10-17-2006, 07:54 PM	#47
finnmontserrat Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 392 Senior Member	I wonder if you think that the education system will be next to seek to remove all Christian content outside of RE lessons? I thought they already did that? Certainly seemed that way when I attended Secondary School here in the UK; and R.E. was treated as a pretty insignificant part of the syllabus. There was, of course, mention of Christmas and we got time off school at Pascha; but no mention was ever made of their significance. In fact, I remember being told to remove a Cross I was wearing around my neck (like BA, the school had a strict jewellary policy). When I enquired as to why my Muslim friends were allowed to wear hijab (even niqab were allowed) and mosque hats, but I couldn't wear a Cross, I was condescendingly told that "there is nothing in the Christian religion that says you have to wear a Cross." I had not yet been received into the Church at that time, and so I didn't see wearing a Cross as the obligation I see it as today, but it nevertheless struck me as being very strange. In XC, Kris
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