To object to a religious song at a baby class?

[SecondTimer2019]

I take my baby (6mo) to a baby sensory class and this week the theme was 'rainbows'. At the end one of the songs played was 'Who put the colours in the rainbow?', which I remember from my childhood.

It asks who created all the amazing things in the world and ends by saying things like 'It can't be chance' and 'God made all of these'.

I'm not religious and think this environment should be secular. Obviously my baby can't understand the lyrics yet but I still feel it is inappropriate.

I'm thinking of contacting the organisers to let them know my feelings.

AIBU?

I think you are being unreasonable. It was a line in a song about rainbows. They weren’t asking you to all sit in a circle & pray together. As PP have said once your DC goes to school they will be exposed to all sorts of religious aspects. The main influence for DC is generally what they hear at home imo. FWIW my 2 DCs went to a C of E primary school and I work in a church office. My DH doesn’t believe in any of it. Neither of my DCs are religious and that’s fine because they have their own minds and I’ve already told them they make their own opinions, it’s not for me or anyone else to tell them what to believe. It certainly hasn’t made them religious by singing a few hymns in assembly!

People like OP are the reason we don't have nativity plays anymore😑😑😑

“ People like OP are the reason we don't have nativity plays anymore”

Except we do. Loads of them. I’m going to two in December already!

Also Christmas lights. Poppy Day. The Union Jack. And curvy bananas

But all those Christmas mentions, Nativity plays and Remembrance Services, they all add up. Christianity becomes the “norm”, rather than an individual choice.😲
😂😂😂

It must be just about time for the annual Remembrance Sunday debate.

Oh yes. Rainbow poppies anyone?

Yes well @Bert none of the schools in our area have done any in years so...

“ Yes well @Bert none of the schools in our area have done any in years so...”. Entirely up to the schools. Some do traditional nativity plays, some do modern ones, some decide for various reasons to do some other sort of performance. As I said, up to the school.

I hope you're not gonna celebrate Christmas or Easter with your baby this year!!

Yes, because presents, Christmas trees and Easter eggs are such exclusively Christian symbols.

“ It must be just about time for the annual Remembrance Sunday debate.”
It’s been banned, hasn’t it?

YABVU .

What’s been banned?

Please stop this Woke madness. Leave ‘God’ in, add in ‘Bob the Builder’ for balance, DIVERSITY and INCLUSION, if you want to go down the woke road.

I m so fed up of everyone finding everything offensive.

But the OP needs the organisers of Sensory Play and all of us to know about her feelings when she hears the word "god". It's, like, really, really important.

People like OP are the reason we don't have nativity plays anymore

Let me guess. You think councils are banning Christmas lights and there are “no go” areas for poppy sellers too.... 🙄

“I m so fed up of everyone finding everything offensive”

Nobody’s offended. Some people just think that religion should be a personal matter, in small issues as well as big ones.

@alsohuman- Remembrance Day. It upset the Muslins......

@Whattodoabout " It is, however, a ginormous waste of money."

Why??

@BertrandRussell - Those pesky Muslins, being all square and absorbent...

Oh for goodness' sake!

The only thing I get hot under the collar about is this whole no-clapping/jazz hands nonsense.

For some reason - and it probably goes back to childhood (I suspect it was a Leo Sayer dance number on a Saturday night variety show on TV) - if anyone even says 'jazz hands' my sphincter tightens. It is beyond cheesy and makes me feel queazy. It really ought to be banned (even if someone is actually dancing to jazz music).

@JacquesandHammer Relax. I didn't say all that mess I am stating an observation. Schools in my area do "unity" assemblies at this time of year. Even the one Christian school on the high road doesn't do a nativity.

You don't have to blinker yourself to any reference to religion to not believe.

Surely going with the flow and being tolerant and not easily offended is the best example to set your child?

Impressive “observation” of every school in your area.