Interfaith Dialogue and Faith Education

 

The Bishop of Bradford and other religious leaders have made great efforts to sustain dialogue between different faith traditions. Alan has suggested that the dialogue on spirituality and morals should be made more widely accessible, and extended to include everyone, humanists, agnostics, atheists and others.

•  Do you think more should be done to promote religious understanding in Bradford ?

•  How could this be achieved?

•  Do you support the idea of faith schools within the state system?

•  Are there any wider public interests or concerns regarding religious education itself, with supplementary schools, for example?

•  Do you agree that the interfaith dialogue should include those with secular views?

 

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As a 'cultural' catholic, but philosophically an atheist, I'm a strong supporter of the separation of state and religion. I believe there should be no faith schools within the state system, but while there are such schools then all faiths should be treated equally. On interfaith dialogue, I don't believe it is helpful at all to characterise people as either having a faith or not. We all have a world view, whether we believe in a God or not. Indeed, at least one religion, Buddhism, doesn't actually incorporate a God within it. Does this make Buddhists secularists? Though most Asian youth may practise their religion, I would guess only a small minority of their white counterparts do so. Whilst I believe it is very important for all faith groups to engage in dialogue it seems to me that the exclusion of secular views will restrict the likely scope of the audience that is willing to listen.	Andy, from Bradford 8/6/04