U.K. "Embarrassed" by God

The hostility of state (public) schools in the United Kingdom to religion has led to a moral vacuum amongst pupils which is being filled by an obsession with 'celebrity culture', the head of the leading association for private schools has warned. Tim Hastie-Smith, chairman of the Headmasters' and Headmstress' Conference (HMC), says "In large parts of the education system God has become an embarrassment.

The retreat of God from education has left a moral and spiritual vacuum and the breakdown of any shared value system." He said the void was increasingly filled by "the passing fads of an X-Factor culture" (a talent show similar in format to American Idol).