Issue 48, 1st quarter 2010
Beyond the New Atheism
Argues Melissa Lane
Pages 66-72
What is religious education for?
What is beyond the pale of a pluralist society is a state-directed frontal attack on the evidence for religious beliefs considered as grounds for religious identity, rather than considered as grounds for scientific argument, for example. Religious commitment is not something which pupils should be expected to defend in terms of generally acceptable reasons for belief.