So I went to my first open day this week, and it was Exeter. To be honest, I completely fell in love with it. The course is amazing, the lecture was facniating, the campus is beautiful, and the town is awesome.

So now I have to pray that my AS results will result in a conditional offer, because I genuinely may cry if I don't get in now. Which sucks, 'cause I probably wont :)

Now though, I want to go. Not because I want  to leave sixth form, but my goodness, the independance looks appealing. I know that whatever I do I'll miss Mum like hell, but what a way to do it. I'm considering non-catered accomodation, which means I essentially have a room on a floor with several other people. Who I get to spend the year with. I get a course which looks facinating, they really know what they're saying and are passionate about it. Theres so much I like about it.

Thing is though, with looking at studying Theology, firstly the grade boundries are quite high. Jasper said that its a pretty uncompetative subject on the whole, but I don't want to lose out. Anyway, its usually met with 'What the hell is that', or 'Seriously?'.

I defend it to the death because it essentially works out to be my perfect course, a mix of English, Psychology, History, Philosophy and RE, and I even enjoy the stunned silence when I claim thats what I want to to.

The thing I wanted to complain about though, is how bigoted people are. I was asked why I was studying things that were made up. (Frankly, whether religion is objective is one thing, but even if their theistic views don't match up to what they perhaps should, religion creates a culture. One might say that God doesn't exist, but cannot say that Christianity doesnt.).

What truely bugged me was our Religion Day at school. Its schedualed for next wednesday, and I was asked to speak for a while at the beginning about my view on the topic of 'Is there any point to religion now we have science'.

Which, I have ranted about in the past- Religion works alongside science, I despise the view that it does not, when one blindsided religious person speaks his minority views for the majority. My point then of course was going to be that of course one does not erradicate the other.

This was the same view as the boy I was arguing against though, and when I told the teacher this, he told me in a surprised tone, "Well I wanted someone to argue that Religion made science pointless."

Hence why I shall not be speaking at the day...

However the more I thought about this the more it angered me. Because all it is doing is appealing to the same bigots to give them new grounds.

"Stupid nieve religious people who believe in God rather than facts", was once said around me. But thats what this ridiculous proposal will support. Find someone to act as the straw man- set up to fail.

I don't like it. It makes me very grumpy.