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  • You didn't say "happy", you said "force for good". I see happy people everywhere, you haven't convinced me that "religion is a force for good in communities for vast numbers of moderate people"

    I also see lots of empty churches, when, according to your figures, half the population should be in them.

    Back to schools - I cannot accept that pupils of faith schools are "better" (educated / rounded / nicer / perceptive / happier) than pupils of secular schools. So I don't see why they should exist.

  • pupils of faith schools are "better" (educated / rounded / nicer / perceptive / happier) than pupils of secular schools.

    Possibly the most egregiously facile thing I've read this week.

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