"For 29-year-old Jonny Scaramanga, who attended Victory Christian School in Bath until he was 14, the experience was "horrendous". "At 8:15 I would arrive at my 'office' - a desk 2ft wide, with dividers 18 ins tall, designed to remove 'distractions'," he said. "Every morning we had an opening exercise: reciting pledges of allegiance to Jesus Christ, God and the Bible. Next, we recited that month's scripture passage; we had to memorise around 10-15 Bible-verses each month." He said the school adopted a "fundamentalist attitude" to religion, adding: "If you believed what they believed, you were Christian. If you believed anything else, you were not Christian."" - Mark H

We've had Jonny Scaramanga and James Williams (also mentioned in that article) down as speakers for our monthly skeptics talks in Portsmouth in the last year. - Mark H

I admit the CEE spokesperson managed to annoy me quite a bit with that statement. God must have placed him on this earth to test me. - Eivind