Me three - I find it curious that there is a large movement in our society that if we are not Christian Church goers we simply don't have good values/morals. I had a friend of my DD13 mother visit my house (DD13 has Aspergers and as such behavioural issues) and when she saw Buddha sitting atop my loungeroom said: "maybe if you subscribed to Christian values you wouldn't have these problems with her"... I almost choked on my Chai! I kindly and respectfully told her that my "values" dn't extend to characater judgeents based on ones religious/spiritual or ethical value systems. (she is a JW - so Christian based).

This certainly isn't a reflection on her religion but on her own values - but that experience highlighted to me how narrow some people are in their characters.

My children's pseudo grandparents (he is an Anglican minister) have openly run down the school my children attend - saying it is a cult and they will never be employed or be accepted into the army... That learning meditation and yoga is pointless - "and all of that singing and dancing that those kids do is just silly..." When my son won an award for excellence in Maths they scoffed and said "it's not a real school"...

Folk can be and sadly are just plain unkind and narrow. How do we change it. We change ourselves. We don't react to unkindness with more unkindness - we stand firm in our values and gently relay them to others...

I think Humanisim in school isn't just a good thing - it's a necessary one!