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I am against faith schools on the principle that state money should not be used to indoctrinate and brainwash children to believe ridiculous and harmful superstitions. I am, however, cognisant of the theory that it is the very integration of the CofE into the mainstream British state that makes it such a wishy-washy and fairly harmless religion these days, and that when private money pays for religious teaching extremism flourishes (see American bible belt Christianity or Salafist/Whahabi Islam).
I am all for state funded schools teaching children about religions, as long as (at the very minimum) no attempt is made to teach the pupils that any of it is true. Preferably it should be made clear that these are just stories made up to control the populace and none of them are actually true.
The solution may be to take the money out of the system by abolishing their charitable status and taxing religions. Imagine how much richer the country would be if all that religious wealth was taxed at 40%. And how much less likely foreign cash would be to flood into this country's religious institutions, schools and businesses.