But they are soundly schooled in the creed that Johann Cruyff, a former player and coach who also is not Catalan but Dutch, implanted in the academy.
And even without prayer in schools, the deist creed is coded into every national ritual we have, from the courtroom to the ballpark.
Michael B Jordan, who plays the title character, Creed, schooled by Rocky in boxing, has his jogging-through-gritty-city-streets moment, in an updated grey-marl tracksuit.
Are you ready for some new-school Assassin's Creed?
This is old-school male perfumery: Creed has catered to the likes of King George V, Emperor Napoleon III and Hollywood royal Cary Grant.
As I explain in my book, The Good News Club: The Christian Right's Stealth Assault on America's Children, the club exists mainly to give small children the false impression that their public school supports a particular creed.
Supported by the king of Prussia, Frederick William III, he adopted for it principles that raised it to a foremost place among the universities of the world the most important principle being that no teacher or student need adhere to any particular creed or school of thought.
In about 1902, the British government ordered that in all public schools, the Church of England creed would be taught.
My Earth Creed from high school and the organization I co-founded in the 1980's to fight religious extremism have as much relevance today as then.
On the elementary level, in particular, the mixed school was established only when the creeds were so intermingled that a confessional school was impracticable.
