David Cameron, quoted in The Metro:
"If you are asking, do I drop to my knees and pray for guidance, no... But do I have faith and is it important, yes. My own faith is there, it's not always the rock that perhaps it should be. I've a sort of fairly classic Church of England faith, a faith that grows hotter and colder by moments but... I suppose I sort of started life believing that one's individual faith was important, but actually the institutions of the church were less important.
"I do think that organised religion can get things wrong, but the Church of England and the other churches do play a very important role in society... I think that it's perfectly possible to live a good life without having faith, by which I mean a positive and altruistic life, but I think the teachings of Jesus, just as the teachings of other religions, are a good guide to help us through."
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"I've a sort of fairly classic Church of England faith"
in other words:-
"I got my banns read so we could have a pretty church wedding, christened the kids as part of the general ceremony and other than that, never go."
Good thing really. I like Frank Field, but most people in politics with too much of a religious belief scare the crap out of me (Widdecombe, Blair, Dorries)
He wanted to get his sprog(s) in to a church primary school. You often have to do the religion thing for that.
Nancy, five, goes to St Mary Abbots Church of England School in Kensington, west London.
This is London 20.02.07
"You sort of feel that your small child or daughter is going to go to this enormous state primary school and may get a bit lost. I think some of the church schools do have a bit more familiarity."
He added: "Faith schools, where you can have a relationship with the school ... and you learn about the school through your attendance at church — I think that's a jolly good thing."
Mr Cameron regularly attends services at St Mary Abbots church. The school is exactly two miles from Mr Cameron's home in north Kensington. State-run Oxford Gardens Primary is right opposite his house but so popular it has a 400-metre catchment area. It is unclear whether the Camerons would fall within its remit.
His party wasted 17 years in office - not to mention Mrs T's inglorious reign at the Min of Ed in the mid-70s - achieving little more than an actual massacre in a distant Scottish school and a metaphorical massacre of education everywhere else. Do they seriously think that a mouthful of platitudinous twaddle is going to satisfy people?
I'm very sorry his son was so ill and died, but there is a limit to the slack one can cut for his continued air-head thinking when his own party has done so much over the last 40 years to muck up the education system.
If anyone would like to see the other schools which Nancy and Arthur won't be attending, the Mail looked up the OFSTED reports.
Well spotted Mark!!!! (That makes you sound like you've got chicken pox).....
Just shows what a limp, pathetic and squalid creature Cameron really is.
Peel away the first layer and all you find is cheap sausage meat with nasty happy shopper lemonade to wash it down.
It amazes me how many religious people have no problems with lying and stealing.
Religion ain't what it used to be.
"It amazes me how many religious people have no problems with lying and stealing.
Religion ain't what it used to be."
In the respect of religious people lying and stealing, religion is exactly the same as it was and ever more shall be. Tony Blair has notable precedents stretching back millennia. In many other respects, however religion has taken a change for the worse.
the Church of England and the other churches do play a very important role in society
Do they? What role? Endorsing Sharia Law?
The Names, doctrines & sacred languages change but the common factor in all religions is that somebody tells you they have the ear of the master of the universe, in pantheisms the master of your personal universe, who is intereseted in what they say & if you give them money they will lobby for you. This even applies to Al Gore selling carbon indulgences.
"I've a sort of fairly classic Church of England faith"
To be fair, it does sound like that is exactly what he has; a 'not really arsed about religion' let alone any hardcore beliefs.
Always remember the most holy and important commandment of the C of E:
"And lo, God saw the constant drizzle that enveloped the green hills of England and He said: Wrap up warm or you might catch a chill."
"It amazes me how many religious people have no problems with lying and stealing.
Religion ain't what it used to be."
Yeah, those renaissance popes were such fine men ;)
Neil, glad to see someone else pointing out that MMGW is the new religion and Al Gore is its prophet.
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