Atheist Sunday School (and the rest)
In Palo Alto, California, a group of non-believers got so jealous of the "values" and sense of community which religious friends gave their children through church groups that they have set up their own Sunday School . They tell inspirational stories and sing songs about their individual importance. The leader is called Mr Bishop.
Meanwhile the untiring Richard Dawkins has annoyed Churchmen in Germany by saying that telling children there is a Hell is child abuse; and in Toronto a splendid children's book by that other Oxonian anti-Church campaigner, Philip Pullman, has been removed from school shelves on suspicion of being anti-Catholic. The book is The Golden Compass, now a hot film for (er..) Christmas. That's subject to a US Christian boycott too - but atheist critics are equally furious that it has 'watered down' its death-of-God message. I daresay the Palo Alto atheist Sunday School will have a great outing...

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