What's CH like nowadays?
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What's CH like nowadays?
Does anyone actually know? Has the bullying totally gone and is non-existent? There seems to be a no tolerance policy in place and the social media posts all seem to convey such a tolerance with all students happy & eager to be there? Please tell me second formers are no longer called squits as I hope even such belittling as that is gone now...
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Re: What's CH like nowadays?
Let me add to that. What's religion like at CH? When I was there in the 1950s it was chapel six days a week and twice on Sundays plus house prayers in the evening. It seemed to be assumed that everyone was a believer. Clearly this could not be so. I got confirmed at around age 14 to please my religious family but was agnostic after leaving school and not really thinking much about it. But the rise in evangelical Christianity and its political ambitions has made me think about which side of the fence I want to be and I've jumped off and become an out-and-proud atheist.
I still have a lingering affection for the old CofE with its familiar liturgy because it doesn't demand literalist belief, but the rise of wild-eyed, biblical certainty here and in America has got me worried. Is religion still compulsory at CH? And in what form? Have the grand old hymns of yesteryear been overtaken by happy-clappy, arm-waving, Jesus freaks, singing songs that sound like entries for Eurovision?
I still have a lingering affection for the old CofE with its familiar liturgy because it doesn't demand literalist belief, but the rise of wild-eyed, biblical certainty here and in America has got me worried. Is religion still compulsory at CH? And in what form? Have the grand old hymns of yesteryear been overtaken by happy-clappy, arm-waving, Jesus freaks, singing songs that sound like entries for Eurovision?