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Richard Kay @copsewood.net · 1d

The problem isn't the existence of money. The problem is a money/tax system tuned to extract value for the benefit of billionaires. Bitcoin is worse. They will distract you through their media to keep you ignorant of community currency alternatives which would keep spending and taxation local.

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Richard Kay @copsewood.net · 2d

If the sun were hot, she wouldn't be wearing what she is. She's probably doing that at first light or cooler evening. Difficult to tell from diffuse shadows. At 5 secs per sheet with 18 minutes rest per hour, she's earning $70 in 2 hours or $35/hour for hard manual labour - not bad for S. Europe.

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Richard Kay @copsewood.net · 2d

This may be hard for some US subjects of King Donald to understand, but businesses outside the US mostly don't depend on US customers and will offer discounts at half the US tariff to new non US customers in preference to continuing to sell in a US market which can't afford profitable prices.

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Richard Kay @copsewood.net · 3d

I've supported the Sikh led Langar Aid myself. A couple of local Sikhs I've got to know have been happy to have their children educated at local Christian led schools.

Richard Kay @copsewood.net · 3d

The right to run schools within the UK state funded system, is based on leaderships being able to offer inclusive education to a sufficiently high standard as measured by common inspection criteria, while continuing to be popular in relation to filling places.

Richard Kay @copsewood.net · 3d

So long as Christian faith led inclusive education is seen within local communities as offering better outcomes compared to secular led schools based on a level playing field, we will continue doing what we're doing - helping young people find a better future, and politics is reluctant to stop us.

Richard Kay @copsewood.net · 3d

The ancient Greek and Norse gods are no longer seriously believed or worshipped, due to beliefs that replaced these and which survived to this day offering more useful perspectives in relation to our existential questions concerning origins, purpose and ethics.

Richard Kay @copsewood.net · 5d

These come in pairs you tear between. Get the tear wrong, or they weren't perforated well, breaks happen regardless of the teabag fibre. We've got to get rid of microplastics out of our environment before they kill us all.
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Startling Discovery: Scientists Find Microplastics in Infant Organs at Birth

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Richard Kay @copsewood.net · 5d

N. Ireland isn't about Protestant v Catholic. That small religious difference has been co-opted by leaders of unionist and republican political aspiration, who are now working together reasonably well for a shared Irish peace process. Political power is not about Christian faith, see John 18:36.

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Richard Kay @copsewood.net · 5d

The belief that beliefs other than secularism need to be excluded from public life, public spaces and publicly funded education treats beliefs other than secularism as inferior to secularism, effectively claiming secularism as the only true belief. It's opposed as is any other kind of theocracy.

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Richard Kay @copsewood.net · 5d

"You just think atheists are inferior"

Your fallacy is straw man. Some, but not all atheists, as with those of other faith positions, have inferiority complexes. If you believe other people think you're inferior, you could be engaging in psychological projection. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychol...

Psychological projection - Wikipedia

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Richard Kay @copsewood.net · 5d

"Eg. Happy with Madrasas in UK are you?"

What is your problem with Muslim communities educating their children in their own traditions and values after conventional school hours at their own expense ?

Are you Islamophobic ?

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Richard Kay @copsewood.net · 5d

To the extent those of faith have minds of our own, there are as many viewpoints as there are those of faith able to think for ourselves. That doesn't mean we can't work together on shared concerns, e.g. educating children within a state supported and inspected framework, providing Foodbanks etc.

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Richard Kay @copsewood.net · 5d

You appear to be hostile to religious viewpoints different from your viewpoint on religion, & in denial that your viewpoint is religious, making your viewpoint more part of the problem than any resolution based on the principles of understand, engage, learn about differences, live and let live.

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Richard Kay @copsewood.net · 7d

Nosferatu the Vampyre

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Richard Kay @copsewood.net · 7d

"as in the insistence of a god. I’m happy to debate this."

Belief is a personal choice. All knowledge depends on believed axioms. The knowledge system within which God is axiomatic offers unique insights into our existence, purpose and understanding of ethics. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

List of Christian Nobel laureates - Wikipedia

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Richard Kay @copsewood.net · 7d

The evidence is the continuing popularity of many UK faith led schools within their secular communities and the achievements of their pupils. I'm aware of higher performing faith led schools compared to secular schools near me both in richer and poorer suburbs of my city.

Richard Kay @copsewood.net · 7d

I believe state financed education is stronger in the UK on the basis that diverse communities which achieve highly enough on the same common school inspection standards can lead schools based on our community values. Schools which meet these standards are places of education, not indoctrination.

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Richard Kay @copsewood.net · 8d

If you throw out the axioms of an epistemology, you don't benefit from what that system of knowledge can teach you. You could make a similar argument against the teaching of maths due to not liking the axioms. The understanding by the faithful of existence, purpose and ethics depends on our axioms.

Richard Kay @copsewood.net · 8d

Suggest you read up on it. Science can't rationally prove the validity of it's own methodologies. E.G. Its understanding of ethics is weaker than it's methodological need for ethics, e.g. no-one has any reason to believe science done dishonestly or in ways that harm.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientism

Scientism - Wikipedia

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Richard Kay @copsewood.net · 8d

Areas of agreement between those of different faiths, e.g. on ethics and how to live a good life and what laws are needed to regulate society, are more remarkable than their individualities. E.G. my Sikh neighbour is active in community engagement and charitable work similarly to those of my faith.

Richard Kay @copsewood.net · 8d

I know a few religious studies teaching professionals who work and have worked in local faith led and secular schools. They don't see their job in the way you allege at all. Education concerns furthering understanding through study of facts, not about teaching students what to believe or think.

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Richard Kay @copsewood.net · 8d

The religious prejudice of Scientism disqualifies believers as leaders of schools expected to teach art, history, literature, philosophy, psychology etc. in addition to maths and science. Scientism is easily refutable, as science methods depend on non science knowledge e.g. metaphysics & ethics.

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Richard Kay @copsewood.net · 8d

"you want school(s) to indoctrinate children with your religious beliefs"

Your logical fallacy is Straw Man. yourlogicalfallacyis.com/strawman

Your logical fallacy is strawman

You misrepresented someone's argument to make it easier to attack.

yourlogicalfallacyis.com

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Richard Kay @copsewood.net · 8d

The same criticism applies to your own faith position. If you claim to believe nothing, you can logically know nothing. Nihilism is not accepted as a basis on which education of others can proceed.

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