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.

you can study all of human history without studying books on myths ? correction aparently you need to understand the why first

Why?

I think it’s quite sad that they don’t know. Just because it’s general knoledge. We are predominately a Christian country and whether you are religious or not, it is part of just general knowledge.

its odd humanity built society on books of fairy tales ?

Exactly, it's just knowledge. Knowing about things doesn't mean you automatically agree with it, or believe in it or whatever.
It's just being educated in general!

. Christians believe the "good" refers to the ultimate triumph over sin, death, and evil through Jesus' sacrifice.

re your first para

There's a lot of mocking on threads about the Christian faith
Ive seen it constantly over the years

I’ve just been browsing Christian Mumsnetters section to see what you mean. I can’t see anything derogatory on any of the posts there (skim read top 20). Any anti-Christian stuff I see on here is generally on AIBU and starts in the same vein as this thread started

They should - agree. All religions, not just Christianity. but they don’t have to be taught it’s true.

its good to have an understanding of the worlds faiths & cultures even if you don’t practice or believe in them, it’s a shame the meaning of Easter isn’t widely know in a traditionally Christian country

Except it didn’t happen. OP completely made this stuff up and fucked off.

Not all Christians. Not all Christians call it Good Friday either.

Not generally on Christian mumsnetters
Just as people wouldn’t mock on Jewish mumsnetters

Agree

but this is the reason why some do
and in answer to the pps question

That last part is the worst argument out of all of these threads. Firstly a huge amount of people go to work so thats pointless, secondly taking a day off because the government have said it's a bank holiday does not mean you agree with it. People like taking holidays, taking the chance to go to the beach or homemade does not a binding contract with Jesus make...

Brilliant!

Beginning to suspect this too…

The state shouldn't be paying for religion to be taught as fact to children who lack the critical thinking skills to come to their own conclusions.

How did you find out this information? If you went and asked each kid, that's extremely weird.

That being said, I'd expect most children of that age, assuming they go to a "normal" primary school to have been taught it in RE lessons by age 9. But depending on the level of "churchiness" of the school, that could have been a couple of lessons 2 years ago, or a series of assemblies about it last week, and a school trip to the local church.
I'll assume that your kids school isn't C of E, and if it is, it's fairly "low church". Culturally Christian, rather than actively so.

I went to a fairly high church primary school, but feel that, at 9, I probably wouldn't have been especially conversant about the different days of holy week. I could have told you Easter Sunday was the day he came back from the dead, but I'm not sure I'd have had much to say about the other days.

The UK does not have an official state religion. In Scotland the church is rightly disestablished

So many verses being taken out of context here and that is just as sad as not understanding that the origin of Easter is, in fact Christian, and nothing to do with a Pagan holiday. A quick internet search debunks that prevailing myth very quickly.

Turning the other cheek does not mean that Christians are supposed to, ignore, allow or condone being disrespected. It actually means the opposite.

Judge not lest ye be judged does not mean Christians shouldn't judge. It is actually Christian duty to judge righteously and correct error so that others are not led into or fall into sin.

They know not what they do is in reference, specifically, to those killing the Messiah. It has nothing to do with the general population of believers and how they are supposed to view others.

These are just some of the verses I've seen taken out of context and quoted by atheists, non believers etc as a means and ways to try to judge and correct Christians thoughts and behaviours.

The internet is our friend regarding bible verses, as far as understanding context if someone is a non believer but actually reading the Bible before quoting it would make for much more educated discussion. In addition, there is a reason that Christians have priests and pastors. Reading the bible doesn't allow context where there is bias or ignorance about history. There are phrases that are rich with context and not to be used in isolation.

Also, it's okay to reach out to a Christian for assistance who will, if you are with good intent, clarify teachings and verses and reasons for tradition etc.

Happy Easter all.

(Edited for spelling mistakes - may not have caught them all!)

Oh my word. If you are shocked by that then you will have lots more shocks to come!!!

I’m surprised that schools haven’t taught this by the age of 9. I’m not surprised that parents, who are not Christians, have not done so. Why would they?

I wouldn’t say I judge people but I actually shocked that children don’t know about Easter.
Even though I am not a Christian I still told mine what the Christian meaning of Easter is.
My husband was brought up in Turkey and he knows what it is too.
My children also know it is the pagan celebration.
I think it’s quite sad if people are only thinking of chocolate (as much as I love chocolate)

Me too, thought this was part of the curriculum. Sure both mine learnt it in reception or yr1z