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.

I'm sorry you had such an awful time at home, and it's great that school was an escape and a mind-broadening experience for you. However, there are certainly conversations to be had about what schools should and shouldn't be allowed to teach, or responsible for teaching to children.

My daughter had strongly Christian staff in pre school although the school itself wasn't specifically religious.

She came home that Easter repeating cheerfully "Jesus do be DEAD in the CAVE". (I couldn't convince her that the important part of the story was the resurrection part..)

It's a tricky story to explain to children without context.

Whilst it may have started with religion that doesn’t mean how most people celebrate it now makes it a religious festival. It’s never been anything to do with religion for me, same with Christmas. That’s never been about religion, it’s always about family and fun.

Not everyone is religious. Mine are aware of the story but we don’t practice any religion so to us its just a story and doesn’t hold any deeper meaning

How does that work if all the parents - or indeed the community - are not as one mind, one belief or one religion?

Irish here, I’m glad religion is on the decline in Ireland. I can’t believe in 2026 people still support an institution/religion where child abuse was known about and covered up, where 796 babies/children from unmarried mothers were disposed of in a Septic tank, all in the name of the religion you seem so proud of.

just because you suffer from religion doesn’t mean that the rest of the country has to. Ireland is a country that in the last 30 years has brought in divorce, gay marriage and abortion by popular vote and I’ve never been prouder. The less influence the Catholic Church has on Ireland the better.

“Suffer from religion”

EID is not a British custom so why even mention it.

I guess it depends on how you define British. Celebrating Eid is a custom for many British people. Therefore it is, to my mind, a British custom🤷‍♀️

It is for British Muslims. And 25% of the global population (compared to about 30% Christian and 15% Hindu).

What's the global population got to do with it ?

And which Eid do you mean, there are 2 ?

A huge number of the British population celebrate EID

How many and which Eid?

About 3% of the population (if you only include the half born in the UK) and both of them.

HTH

Why does that even matter to you? The UK is a multifaith society now. There was a massive Christian Easter event in Trafalgar Square yesterday and hey, nobody frothed about it. Unlike all the rage about the Eid event there earlier. Why can people not treat all faiths and none with equal respect (or lack thereof)?

I couldn't care less who celebrates what. None of it is better or more important than any other part of it.

Now that's interesting you say they celebrate both Eids.

Some people on these threads criticise the Easter message because they say the Good Friday story of the Crucifixion is too graphic for children.

However, they don't seem to blanch at Muslims buying a live goat or sheep at Eid alAdha and cutting it's throat in their back yard or in sheds and allowing children to watch.

https://religionislam.org/should-children-watch-the-slaughter-of-the-sacrificial-animal/

https://x.com/realMaalouf/status/2038629173174927575

https://www.standard.co.uk/hp/front/farmers-warned-not-to-sell-lambs-to-muslims-who-want-them-for-religious-sacrifice-6687856.html

https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/580745/Islam-Muslim-halal-slaughter-farm-UK-Llechrydau-Farm-court

@pointythings Why does that even matter to you?

See my post at 16.40 above ^

Well, yes we explained to our primary age DDs about Easter. But we versed it in terms of it was just one of many, many other fairy tales.

If you want to get into the whole halal slaughter thing by whinging about a goat that actually gets eaten, you'd better be a full on vegan.

I am 🙂

Fair enough, but the principle stands.

Personally I think that children should learn from a young age where meat comes from. We certainly told ours, but then wehad both spent time in our own childhoods in farming environments where death was just a fact of life.

The whole religion thing isn't about facts though, is it?

You seem to have spectacularly missed the point which was about peoples' selective outrage about traumatising children.

Death isn't an issue but the method of getting there is.

And I don't know what "principle" you refer to ?

There are plenty of facts in religion BTW

There are plenty of facts in religion BTW

Only those which do not relate to the existence of any actual deity.

As for telling our children gruesome things; ultimately that comes down to parental choice and responsibility, doesn't it? We don't let our children watch slasher films, we don't let them read inappropriate books so why is this particular piece of horror exempt? Some parents may think it's fine, others won't.

I agree.

The horror that is Eid al Adha persists for some reason, even in a supposedly civilised country like UK 🤔

I'm not going to tell my kids about religion because to me it's nonsensical and it would feel pointless. They learn the basics in school about what different faiths believe and that's enough.