THIS is James, a NSW scripture teacher: “The great opportunity we have in teaching scripture in our primary schools … is that we’re allowed to teach it up to an hour a week … I spoke to a … student … and I said: ‘Did you know that God loves you?’ and he said: ‘No I didn’t.’ Then I went through John 3:16 and asked him if he’d ever heard that before and he said ‘No.’ And it shocked me [that] … this boy didn’t even know that his creator loved him and cared about him … and sent him the Lord Jesus. The challenge is before us to capture the hearts and minds of children and youth, to talk about Jesus in the scripture classes …”

Read more appalling piracy of our childrens’ minds by those adults who have been rendered bonkers by religion in The Melbourne Age