Has Amy Winehouse embraced Scientology?

Recent press reports suggest that troubled singer Amy Winehouse has followed her off-again-on-again ex-husband Blake Fielder-Civil (currently in rehab) into a new-found belief in Scientology. The controversial Church of Scientology has many celebrity followers, including John Travolta and Tom Cruise to name but a few.

According to sources close to Amy the press have managed to dig up, the singer will adopt anything Fielder-Civil thinks or believes without question, leading many to worry about her being led astray (again).

Well, whatever you believe about Scientology as a credible ‘religion’; it is at least less physically damaging than copious drug-taking.

Private faith school to open in Hull may cause concern for parents

A new school set to open in Hull this September is causing a great deal of controversy in the local area as well as in the press. The New Life Academy will cost parents £2,000 a year to send their children there, and will follow the Accelerated Christian Education (ACE) curriculum.

Supporters say the school will provide children with an ‘individualised’ Christian education so that they may learn at their own pace, but those opposed to it hold a drastically different option. Amongst other arguments, those opposed are warning parents that the school will isolate children and attempt to condition them with ‘fundamentalist’ Christian teaching, where they will be taught to interpret the Bible entirely literally.

Religion and sex

Religion and sex is a massive subject around the world and allot of religions ban or stop you having sex before marriage. The idea behind this would drive me mad as what would happen if you never get married, would that mean you would never have sex?

I think this is why you see lots of sex scandals with vicars and even sometime children or did I see that at the movies, either way sex and religion will always be in the news and I’m glad for once I’m not religious.

What are your experiences, have you had the same issues? Let me know your thoughts?

Is Religion Dying?

Many people may argue the case with this statement but research is showing this is the truth. Alot of research has been carried out to look into this especially in America where reports are stating that religious observance is at an all-time low.

Two thirds of Americans no longer attend religious services with any regularity and ten percent assert they do not believe in God at all. Fifteen percent of Americans say they have no religion, double the percentage in 1990.

All though this is just research carried out in America it is happening everywhere and proof of this in the United Kingdom Is by the amount of local community churches being shut down and few numbers actually attending mass.

Faith has helped keep many countries’ strong and we should not turn our backs on history or we will come to regret the future. The role of religion has been enormously beneficial, and its value must not be ignored.