Jesus held on the cross with nails in his hands

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DD5 is in year 1 and has been learning about Jesus at school. Great stuff in the spirit of Easter.

The RE teacher told the class how Jesus was NAILED to the cross.

This is quite graphic for a little girl who believes that the Easter bunny will leave eggs in our garden.

Should I tell school that this is too much info for little ears?

My very non squeamish 10 year old loved the ancient Egyptian topic! She loves anything gory, can't work out if she's going to be a serial killer or a medic!!

Oh and the teacher is wrong. Crucifixion is done with nails through the wrists and ankles as hands and feet would tear straight through, also it makes the bleeding to death happen quicker.

Please save the Cadbury mini eggs they are my favorite 😍

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We had morning assembly and 'prayers' but I didn't associate it with Christianity as I had no concept of Christianity. My parents had no concept of religion of any kind. But I knew that the Jewish girls didn't join us for the general assembly and went to Jewish prayers somewhere else. But I didn't know what Jewish meant either.

I remember sobbing at poor Robert Powell in J of N. It is a very cruel story and I was quite affected by it @TaFox some children take it to heart more than others but they soon move on and get distracted by other things.

maybe say to your DD that things have changed now and they don't so such cruel things to people as they did all those years ago.

I grew up with this stuff in school, never bothered me.

Far more bothered since about sexual abuse and general treatment of women since then and attitudes towards divorce, contraception, abortion & homosexuality that occurred within that same religion.

I hate that Christianity is still being pushed in schools at all, personally 🤢 you’re not being unreasonable imo!

I dont think it is traumatising at all. Lies and indoctrination yes, but not scary.

I'm not Christian, but I don't think it's lies. Jesus definitely existed, didn't he? Whether he was the "son of God" though is another matter 🤔

Glad to see some PP have noted that the original message of Easter has nothing to do with Christ! I’m surprised how many people didn’t know that.

My Sunday school teacher told us when we were very little that after Jesus was taken off the cross and arose from his tomb, he was walking along and came upon a little girl playing with her rabbit.
She asked, “Who are you?”
He replied, “I’m Jesus.”
Girl: “You can’t be Jesus. Jesus is dead.”
Jesus: “Oh, but I am Jesus, and I’m very much alive. Here - let me prove it to you.”
Jesus took the little girl’s rabbit and petted it and put put it back on the ground next to the girl, and the the rabbit laid three perfect eggs.
And that’s how we have the Easter bunny and Easter eggs.
It’s sure enough a fairytale, but kind of a sweet one.

I've been to church when I was younger. DD has never been to church.

In my daughter’s first week of primary school her reception teacher told her that everyone was going to die one day and that included her. It was not surprisingly quite upsetting for a 4 year old to suddenly start thinking of her own mortality.
children’s stories are full of terrible things happening to people - to be honest you are in for a long ride…Jesus’s hands being nailed to the cross is quite mild for some of the other stuff she will be hearing about quite young

This.

Also it would have been through his wrists as the nails would not have been to support a human body.

My DD walked in to the church during a village fete and asked if this was the pub 🤣 she'd been in either. She was taught that Jesus died on the cross though... I soon brought her round to my atheist ways and to know that all religion is evil.

Ostara (Easter) was originally about bunnies and eggs. The Christian version came much much later.

I was just trying to remember when I learned about Jesus dying on the cross. Then I recalled that my mother has always had a crucifix on the wall at home, so it's just been something I took for granted.

Me too. This is one of my core memories from primary school as it was so shocking. Some kids cried.

I found this aspect really horrible as a child but mainly from looking at paintings of it. I always imagined the nails ripping through his hands because of the weight of his body but I didn’t ask further questions. I think it is unavoidable as there are so many depictions of it, so she might as well be told.

Wait until they teach them about Guy Fawkes!

We were shown Jesus Christ Superstar and I remember the 39 lashes more clearly than anything. It is a bit traumatising but they do need to learn this stuff.

It's interesting what people think children will or won't understand.

I remember learning this as a child about 7 years old and being very confused by it. My grandma was very religious. I remember my thought process clearly.

At first, I remember thinking 'well that wouldn't work because you can't put nails through someone's hands' - the idea was simply too gruesome for me to think it could even be possible.

I went through a whole thought process of wondering how they kept him up there and if he had to just somehow hold onto the nails (but why would he do that?), or if the nails were just really thin, or if they put it in his fingers instead of his hands.

I asked my grandma about it and she told me that the nails did go into his hands, but it didn't hurt him because he was Jesus.

I was really confused.

But I definitely knew that putting nails through someone's hands would be bloody and horrible.

The idea of crucifixion itself on the other hand - which is obviously the most gory and horrendous thing - was something that I could not comprehend (hence the nails seemed worse!)

Not 'definitely existed' at all, the evidence is pretty sketchy at best.