Racist By Decree

Daniel Hannan has a scanned copy of a note sent home with a young British student:

Dear Parent / Carer,

As part of the National Religious Education Curriculum together with the multicultural community in which we live, it is a statutory requirement for Primary School aged children to experience and learn about different cultures.

The workshop is at Staffordshire University and will give your child the opportunity to explore other religions. Children will be looking at religious artefacts similar to those that would be on display in a museum. They will not be partaking in any religious practices. 

Refusal to allow your child to attend this trip will result in a Racial Discrimination note being attached to your child’s education record, which will remain on this file throughout their school career.

As such our expectations are that all children in years 4 to 6 attend school on Wednesday 27th November to take part in this trip. 

All absence on this day will be investigated for their credibility and will only be sanctioned with a GP sick note.

If you would like to discuss this further please contact our R.E. Coordinator, Mrs Edmonds.

Yours Sincerely,

 

Mrs L. Small

Head Teacher

I'll give you a moment to let the creep factor fade a bit. 

Actual fascists, for those wondering, were never this smug. They did not have that remarkably elevated sense of righteous that accompanies our modern educational class like incense trailing a medieval priest. The analogy goes beyond mere attitude. Having abandoned the Christian creed the religious impulse has been directed into secular pursuits. The religious ministers of old hectored, cajoled and inspired their parishioners to lead better lives. From the late 17th century onward religious ministers in the English speaking world had little political power. They had only the power of example and moral explanation. Whether sincere or hypocritical these men lacked one vital tool that is at the disposal of their bastardized descendants: The power of the state.

An aspect of the religious impulse has been the desire for a kind of Platonic perfection. The great religious creeds were wise enough to remind their adherents that such a perfection is not possible on this earth, merely in the hereafter. This provided a check on fanatics who wished to create heaven on earth. The history of the Catholic Church in particular is filled with accounts of church authorities suppressing heretics. While some of these heretics were brilliant visionaries like Galileo or Bruno, most were pre-modern versions of jihadists. The Church, in fact, was trying to keep the fanatics in line before they destroyed society. Such was the nature of the time and place in which they lived.

Our modern age is somewhat less violent and certainly less intellectually restrained. Yet the perfection impulse is still there. Unrestrained by wiser figures in positions of authority, or by a religious doctrine that would remind its adherents of divine judgement, modern statists have a full remit. It is no coincidence that the original nanny state, the so called Blue Laws of the late Victorian era, were pushed by liberal minded protestant ministers. They had begun to lose their faith in transcendent matters and so went about perfecting man on earth. One petty law at a time.

Today the trappings of Christianity have been dispensed with entirely. Indeed it is now, apparently, a statutory requirement that English children study other religions or else. The actual "exploration" seems to be the viewing of museum pieces that, in a different era, might have been termed relics. What actual knowledge or understanding could be imparted to bored children by staring at old things is questionable. It is a kind of ritual. Children must be "tolerant" so by exposing them to other religions they will become tolerant. That exposing children to other religions might actually repulse them does not seem to be a consideration. Many British school children, of course, have no religion at all, and these exhibits will seem to them like only so much sacred mumbojumbo.

The mind of the righteous fanatic is indifferent to these facts. The Truth shall prevail.

Modern day inquisitors are more subtle than Torquemada. He merely tortured mens bodies, his descendants destroy the English language. Refusing to let your child visit a religious museum of sorts will have your child, and you, officially declared a racist. Religion isn't the same thing as race. One can have many perfectly legitimate objections to a religion, or religion in general, and yet believe all races to be equal before Man and God. 

The subtext is quite old fashioned: Think as we think, believe as we believe, or the secular mark of Cain will descend upon your house. 

Actual fascists were, by comparison, a modest and unassuming bunch.

 

Comments

[John Chittick]

This is just another reason why public education is no longer a viable institution. The inherent civil war within Western civilization has left the educational establishment incapable of fostering tolerance of the "other", whether it be secular, religious, multi-culti or whatever.

The public school curricula is now a political prize to be won at the polls and shoved down the "other's" throats. If the universality of public school opportunity is sacrosanct to most, then the public authority should, at most, offer vouchers but should disengage from all direct educational activities including accreditation.

[Thanatos]

Compared to the toxic draught of socialist utopianism combined with the soulless enabling mechanism of globalist capitalism that we currently live under, Fascism would seem an oasis of enlightened and civilized modern behavior.

I'd go for it if I didn't think many of the ones creating the current situation would hop from that to a new fascist state like the rats they are when they realize their Whore of Babylon will eat herself. Fuckin statist parasites.