An Anglican leader is urging state schools to ditch the Bible in Schools programme as he believes it is trying to create a loophole around the New Zealand Bill of Rights.<\/p>\n
St Matthew in the City Reverend Clay Nelson has joined the atheist run-Secular Education Network in a bid to get the religious education programme out of the country’s primary and secondary schools.<\/p>\n
Nelson said the programme is an imposition on the human rights of children as it restricts the freedom of other religions which is protected under the Bill of Rights.<\/p>\n
“The biggest reason is the issue of human rights,” Nelson told TV ONE’s Breakfast.<\/p>\n
“We believe in freedom of religion and to have Bibles in public schools is in an imposition on the religious freedom of others. To have religious freedom you have to have freedom from the religion of others.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
In the video below Clay declares that he is a \u201cnon-theist\u201d, doesn\u2019t believe in the divinity of Jesus and doesn\u2019t believe any of the historic creeds; his faith, he says, thrives on \u201cuncertainty\u201d.<\/p>\n
Oddly enough, he still insists on calling himself a Christian; nevertheless, as Kierkegaard pointed out, it doesn\u2019t matter how many times you call a cow a horse \u2013 it remains a cow.<\/p>\n