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.

How idiotic. Why wouldn't you just be honest about what Christians actually believe? Instead you're raising your children to be ignorant about other people's religion.

That is incorrect.

The Anglican Church of England is the state church of England, whilst the Presbyterian Church of Scotland is the national church of Scotland.

The Monarch of the United Kingdom is the supreme governor of the Church of England.

Both Northern Ireland and Wales have no state religion since the Irish Church Act 1869 and the Welsh Church Act 1914, respectively

Agree, and I like to learn all about Eid, Ramadan, Diwali etc.
Doesn't mean I'm going to become a Muslim, or Hindu 😕

The poster was being sarcastic.

Yes , because priests and pastors don’t have any bias or ignorance themselves or aren’t just as fallible as any other human.

A Catholic school in Ireland no less. 🙄

They're educated about the historical contexts and individuals to which the Bible refer. They go to university for this information and have access to ancient texts etc.

You can visit Tyndale House for more information or seminaries who will also assist.

Hope this helps!

Edited to say: I am not going to engage in defence or persuasion, but education only, and only for those who are genuinely and respectfully interested.

Have a great weekend!

Why do you assume they are christians?

And yet not all Christian branches (even just the main ones) believe the exact same thing , observe the same customs, in the same way and interpret the Bible in the same way. Is one more right than the other? Some priests less educated than others?

Or the simple fact that Bible interpretation is highly reliant on humans ( human translation, interpretation and interests) and as such , fallible?

Are you joking? I have seen multiple posts criticising Islam. Just Google if you don't want to bear false witness..sorry "ask a genuine question..."

Depends how far back you want to put the root cause. The denial of civil rights that was the catalyst was along religious lines.

The point people miss is I was raised Christian, as people are so keen to point out we have still an undercurrant of Christian tradition, which means that we can mock it, we have the basis to do so in a way we don't have with other religions. But the good news is people who grew up in the other traditions are mocking there own touch points so between us all we have all the basis covered.

And by the way, this thread was started by someone "judging people" who didn't tell the story of easter to their kids which is why people are responding to it.

I think it should be taught by the way but the same way every religion should be taught, without saying it is true.

It is an absolute TRAVESTY that more children aren’t taught about Eostre, the Anglo-Saxon goddess of spring, from whom we get many of our pagan “Easter” traditions like rabbits and eggs. I would have enjoyed learning about that a lot more than being extremely confused, which I was, by what chocolate eggs and bunnies have to do with some miraculous resurrection.

You specifically said official. It may be the national church but it is not official. Here the kirk is "largely distinct from the state." It doesn't matter what the king is up to down south here he is merely a member so he is of no relevance to whether it is a state religion here.
(All this from the House of commons report on the relationship between church and state)

All of this is just needles dancing on the head of pins though. This is a secular country it doesn't matter what antiquated laws there are that says otherwise.

The discrimination and abuses were about maintaining unionist control of NI rather than about religion per se. There is a correlation between religion and nationality in NI. Those discriminated against happened to be catholic in the main.

I agree.
It was a secular issue but it was "fought" along religious lines.

@VividPinkTraybake It may be the national church but it is not official.

What does that mean ?🤔

In England, there is a constitutional link between Church and state. The official Church of the state is the Church of England (called the Anglican Church in other countries and the Episcopal Church in Scotland and the United States). It is a Protestant Church and has existed since the Reformation in the 1530s.

I'm assuming this poster is saying her child died and her other children thought she could come back to life because she was just as special as Jesus and school told them Jesus was special so came back to life. Can't believe people are responding in a callous or jokey way to this.

Well, it's not very clear what was meant.

No, of course not. Imo the more you learn about the various different religions, the more glaringly obvious it becomes that none of it's true!

Sorry, I must be misunderstanding this: "we're not all slaves to religion like many of the Irish".

You can't have meant what that sounds like? Because it sounds like anti-Irish bigotry. Would you mind just clarifying what you meant? Or should I report the post?

Sorry to hear about your daughter, it must have been very hard to explain to your other children she couldn't come back to

I live in Ireland too and in case you weren’t aware most people in Ireland have zero choice but to send their child to a Catholic school . I’m paying the same taxes as everyone else so why should I have to drive for an hour to go to one of the few educate together schools. My child is opted out and sits in the corner colouring with another child when they are teaching religion. What I find much worse than non Christians not teaching their kids about Easter is the hypocrite Catholics who get their child’s communion and a big party and bouncy castle and yet never ever go to mass . I was raised catholic and I don’t practice anymore but at least my mother made the effort to bring me to mass back in the day before I made my communion. They seriously need to remove religion from schools in Ireland . Let the parents who want communion go to Sunday school or something instead. I’d wager a vast majority wouldn’t be bothered with the sacraments then.

As someone who despises religion in all its forms, let the children have their Eostre (Saxon godess of Spring and the dawn) based fun.