Some (Not all, but a lot that i have met) religious jews think that you, being non-jewish, does not possess a soul. some have twisted it into saying that non-jewish do have souls, but lesser souls. this might not be an "official" stance, but its popular enough that i stumbled into it more than occasionally.
And judaism is mostly non-missionary precisely because religious jews think themselves better than non-jewish.
As for this:
You forgot Northern Ireland.
Just read through the rest. I have to say, I see no problem. I was brought up in that. Assembly has the Lord's Prayer, passage from the bible (Giving a good, morally strong message) and then go off happy as Larry.
Nothing is forced, except attendance to assembly. You don't want to say the Lord's Prayer, you don't. If a country wants to maintain their religious identity, it's up to them. It is a democracy, after all.
And you can't say "All of my WUT." Atheism is as viable as religion. There is no proof there isn't a God. Let people respect their God daily, but maintain the freedom of the individual.
I disagree. i think that its nigh impossible for most people to attain a "clean slate" and that their early education is a prominent factor in their set of believes and perspectives, even if sub conciously. those mandatory prayers are denying little kids the ability to decide for themselves because they see educational authorities that encourage and participate in those mass prayers. and while its very possible those actions resulted in ridiculing the religion with some of you who have probably been raised in a somewhat secular family, i think that they also helped capture others into their missionary nets.
If you are an agnostic and cant tell whether there is a god or not, why accept of a teaching that there is? why not encourage to ask the question, rather than encourage giving the answers?
Why allow reading only from the bible? how would you feel if your kids would be forced to go through a daily reading of dianetics?
And there is a world of difference between the question of god existence and religion, because you see, while i can't prove the existence or non-existence of god, i can prove the non-viability of the bible as a tool of understanding the world and living in it, and while gods might work in mysterious ways, religions works in a very power hungry, thought dominating, earthly manners.