To judge parents who do not even tell their children Easter is a religious festival

[Tuliptana]

I'm shocked that 12 out of 20 children in my childs class had no religious knowledge of the meaning of Good Friday or Easter Sunday for Christians.
All aged 9yrs old.

My child learns about religion in school.
Roman Catholic, so Easter is important.

DS asked why are we celebrating if Jesus died? I just took the time to explain it all.

I agree
I’m struggling to believe that these kids had no knowledge at all tbh

most Catholic schools will have taken the kids to church. At least the primary ones anyway.
Perhaps the kids had forgotten

Whatever your beliefs, it’s pretty low to mock another person’s religion.

Goodness, I certainly hope they don't read the Bible in school! Unless parents have specifically chosen to send their kids to a faith school (and I don't think those should be state funded anyway) then there is no place for religious indoctrination in our schools.

My DC are interested in history but it's difficult to understand all the shifting global alliances since ww1 even. They understand how religion has played a played a part in many conflicts across the world and have a reasonable understanding of the main religious groups across current and recent times. But i don't see why understanding all the individual details those different religions believe in is that important.

My kids were always told the pagan origins of Easter and we celebrated the start of spring and new beginnings and life- hence Easter Eggs
They didn’t need to know about Jesus because it’s not relevant to us. I think they taught them some of it at school but my children just thought it was a story, same as the Christmas story

This thread gets better and better!
Sky fairy - tick.
Imaginary friend - tick.
Indoctrinate - tick.

Hot not cross buns! Almost as good as the result of pouring boiling water down a rabbit hole: Hot Cross Bunnies. There are certain some of those on this thread.

Hot not cross buns! Hot not cross buns!
One a penny, two a penny,
Hot not cross buns.
If you do not like them, give them to your sons and daughters*,
One a penny, two a pound**,
Hot not cross buns.

*Another problem with the Bible: lots of sons, and hardly any daughters.
**Inflation.

It’s about spring. That’s okay. If you’re Christian then of course you should know about the murder and zombification of a 2000 year old prophet but otherwise, it’s fine to allow it to just be the seasonal celebration that it originally was. (I was raised a strict Catholic, I wish it had been more about spring…and less about spear wounds and the undead)

Definitely, my child learnt this in Yr 2 or 3.

You can judge me all you want. I had a religious upbringing but do not believe in God and decided against that for my child. I haven't got an axe to grind or expeirenced anything particularly negative, but I'd rather she learnt about religion (that includes all religions) in a factual and dispassionate way, which is difficult if you've been indoctrinated from a young age.

I'm Irish, and until there are enough places in non-Catholic schools for every child, such that sending a child to a Catholoc school is a deliberate choice, then, no it doesn't.

Actually I believe that indoctrinating children with damaging falsehoods is always wrong, but can't tell other parents what to do.

Some people aren't religious. I refuse to teach my kids out about an imaginary person in the sky as fact.

I think what Easter is now is a far cry from where it originated. Only the themes of new life and new beginnings has been maintained, and even that has been quite lost. Eggs to resemble new life, but it has to be in the form of chocolate to feed the sugar addictions and capitalise on people's need to feel included in such celebrations, religious or otherwise.

I personally dont celebrate Easter, I don't do an Easter dinner and I dont buy chocolate eggs. My kids do Easter crafts and such but thats about it. I would tell them the religious basis of it when they are old enough to understand, but purely out of building their general knowledge.

Its the same as Christmas really (though as we know, thats a whole other story), im surprised a lot of kids know it is religious since all religious elements of it are practically depleted from the event in most places and instances. Its just a reflection of an increasingly secular society. I dont think Easter was ever a majorly celebrated event, in recent decades, and has only really been made such a thing because of capitalism.

Not at all. If people hold ridiculous beliefs, it's only fair to expect ridicule.

In my DSS school (Catholic), 5 of the 17 students opted out of religious education. There aren't enough non denom schools in Ireland unfortunately

There is only one God , and you should only worship one God. Right?

But wait… The son is also God. The Holy Spirit is also God. God is not the Son or the Holy Spirit, The Son is not the Holy Spirit. And so on. But they are all God, but no one God.

They are not three different Gods though, because there is only one God. But they also aren’t different interpretations/facets of one God.

If you pray to Jesus , you’re not praying to God or the Holy Spirt, but Jesus is God and so are the others.
If you pray to God, you’re not praying to Jesus or to the Holy Spirit, but Jesus is God and so are the others.

Separated but one. Faith does a lot of heavy lifting on this one.

Round and round and round we go.

But it’s all a load of nonsense really isn’t it?
Someone made a story up and everyone celebrated it.

I think it's rude to mock an individual religious person. The person is not the belief - I have friends of all faiths and none, and they wouldn't be my friends if they weren't decent people.

But the institutions? Those are absolutely up for ridicule. All of them. If we do not criticise organisations (of all kinds) and hold them to account, we will never have progress.

It must be hard for you living in a society where 77% of the population are Catholic. A considerable proportion of the remaining 23% are other religions which are equally oppressive or worse and many are more rigidly practised than Catholism. So you are very much in the minority. Perhaps you should move and be among less abhorrent people, all that constant mocking must be exhausting.

But we're not all Christians. I taught my children that it's a pagan spring festival that was co-opted by Christians, same as Christmas was.

Ah, of course it turns out you are religious, what a twist.

My child knows some people believe in god. That’s the scope of religious education in this household.

To answer another question of yours, some people have to enrol their children into a religious school because that’s the only/best option in the area and they can’t afford a private school.

The Trinity cannot be fully comprehended, or understood in every respect. But just because something is not “completely intelligible,” it does not follow that it is unintelligible or nonsense.

Transubstantiation is a "Mystery". Just because it cannot be explained does not mean it isn't valid.

77% may be Catholic but I can guarantee you that most of that 77% are not practicing!! They only baptise their dc out of some sort of weird respect(obligation) towards elder members of their family and because they may live in small communities where it’s the done thing!

Not all children are Christians

that 77% is really showing at the local parish. bursting at the doors. a religion so strong and sure of it's base that they no longer formally allow people to leave it and fought tooth and nail on gdpr grounds to stop a person who wants to leave from deleting their information.

very Christian loving sentiment there of if you hate our religion then fuck off out of Ireland 😂😂😂

1. you never said your school was Christian, or that you were Irish. You might have got different answers.

2. I never taught my kids about Easter, nor did my parents teach me.. i learned about it at school. So if your students at age 9 don't know the Story of Jesus, and the story of how he died and rose again, then i suggest you look at your schools curriculum.. because i attended a CofE school and definitely knew as young as age 6 what it was about.

3. 'Easter" isn't a christian festival. Easter is almost entirely Pagan.. the time of year, how we celebrate, the name. The bunnies, the eggs..etc. Why don't you find your own name for it, instead of stealing my religions, then there might be less confusion. We celebrated Ostara and the Solstice.