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UK: Teach Christian history in our schools, says bishop

By Alliance Alert

Michael Nazir-Ali writing in Standpoint Magazine: "We must ensure that the teaching of history is not just about a number of significant events and personalities and that there should be a connected narrative. But how is this to be achieved and what is the 'golden chain of harmony' that can provide the connection? Surely, this has to do with a world-view that underlies the emergence of characteristically British institutions and values: the Constitution itself ('the Queen in Parliament under God'); a concern for the poor; a social security net, based on the parish church, which goes back to the 16th century; and personal liberties as enshrined in the Magna Carta. The world-view that made these fundamental national building-blocks is the Judaeo-Christian tradition of the Bible."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on October 29, 2010 (boomark / email).