BNP teachers?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/8563044.stm

For fuck's sake, get things into perspective. We allow religious people to teach, and in many cases that is actually considered as being of great benefit to a society or community.

Frankly, in the greater scheme of things, it is just as detrimental to a child's development to be taught by someone who fundamentally believes that Britain should be racially pure, as by someone who fundamentally believes in immaculate conception and that dinosaurs lived alongside humans.

Both sets of beliefs halt our development as a species by reinforcing counterproductive ideas that are not founded on reason or fact.

Both sets of beliefs are inherently hostile towards those who have other convictions.

Both sets of beliefs are essentially born out of fear and ignorance, be it xenophobia, death, the human condition or the fear of a malevolent, omnipotent master.

So BNP members can't join the the police force. I can relate to that sentiment, ie a racist police officer can't actually protect and serve a community that isn't racially pure. But it is OK for a religious person to protect and serve communities that are of mixed beliefs? I mean, being a church going christian police officer will not in any way impede on one's ability to fairly deal with members of the public who are, say, Muslim or Jewish, right? Wrong. Religion and racism are equally irrational beliefs, and equally dangerous. Sadly, quite often they are the same.

But no, oh no, we mustn't go there, we cannot talk about the idiocy of religion, we cannot criticise religion, that great, benevolent fallacy that continues to make us have consider our lives and thoughts in relation to events that may or may not have happened sometime in the bronze-age. Have a go at every other stupid, uninformed, deranged belief but for god's sake leave good old religion alone.