>>The thing is we used to get this info in school - hymns and prayers would be voiced in morning assembly, for ex. - now the kids do presentations demonstrating electrical currents or what-have-you. If they're going to be instructed in other religions, to foster understanding, and the predominant religion won't be focused on, cos there are kids from different faiths, then at least their own religious sects and flavours, and practices, should be given equal air-time
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>Perhaps they are making the wrong assumption that people already know your own religion <g>.
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>>BTW, isn't it a recent "Happy new year" to you and your lot? :-)
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>Naw-Ruz, or new year, is on March 21. We are currently in the year 164 (I had to look this up, which might be related to the topic of this thread...

See! Ask me when Lent starts though! :-)

>for most practical purposes, we use the Gregorian Calendar most of the time). The start of year 1 is in 1844, in the Gregorian Calendar.

Hey, you've got a lot of catching up to do then! We've motor cars, electricity, aeroplanes, cameras, and computers (whereby one can chat with peopl all over the world) now :-)