It’s tough enough being 6, what with all those great things to believe in – dragons, Easter bunnies, Santa, Superheroes … but kids being kids, if you are different and decide not to believe, then YOU are DIFFERENT… and you’ll be picked on by the other kids… your friends… because THEY’VE already been successfully hooked by their teachers, or have succumbed to the pressure of their school friends.
This was touched on in HEY PREACHER! – but at the time I did not click as to the peer pressure from kids who follow blindly…
This is how social brainwashing works. This is kids who don’t understand, pushing other kids into something they don’t understand…. and anywhere outside of religion, this would cause an uproar as BULLYING.
I’m all for people learning about religions, but this is wrong.
How does religion not fall under fraud legislation?
Because it’s religion….
Imagine a teacher going to court & swearing on the bible about how biblical teac….. ah, you know what I mean…
Still think a good lawyer could probably make a case.
Most likely.
I try to teach my lad tolerance & understanding. He can make his own mind up when HE can make his own mind up.
This is rather worrying as, as far as I know, RE in schools is meant to be taught, effectively, as comparative religion. I have been told (rather indignantly in fact by a teacher who is Christian) that teachers in non-faith schools are not supposed to even tell children that they believe in a particular religion.
Either they are ignoring that, or they aren’t trained to teach it correctly.
[...] touched on it HERE over at God and [...]