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

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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 don’t need to be a Christian to be Irish or get an Irish passport. There are plenty of Irish people who don’t believe in God at all.

The foundation of everything about religion is self serving. The entire point is salvation, or heaven, or similar (for most standsrd religions at least, certainly what people are mostly talking about)

I can confirm that there are PLENTY of agnostic and atheist Irish people! A bloody 30 year religious/political conflict in the north and decades of abuse of power by the clergy all over, alongside all the abuse of women and sexual abuse of children put plenty of people off continuing to believe in god and/or religious ceremonies and rules of any kind.

Oh, and British people
aren’t flocking to get Irish passports to be closer to priests - it’s to remain EU citizens. Obvs.

That makes no sense.

British is a nationality, Islam is a religion.

That's like comparing potatoes and daffodils.

Quite. Easter rituals are also a matter of religion, not nationality.

So why are some people talking about "British Muslims" ?

@nevernotmaybe The foundation of everything about religion is self serving. The entire point is salvation, or heaven, or similar (for most standsrd religions at least, certainly what people are mostly talking about)

That isn't so.
I'm not sure who you have been listening to?
Not for Protestants, anyway.

At the heart of Protestant belief is the conviction that salvation is entirely a work of God’s grace. It cannot be earned, merited, or bought through human effort. It is an unmerited gift from a loving God to a fallen humanity.

So how would you class Judaism?

People who are British citizens who follow Islam as a faith 🤷
What don't you understand ?

I don't get why there needs to be that label?
Surely they are just Muslims ?

Is this some sort of weird test? Are you actually confused about whether Judaism is a religion or a nationality?

Boy oh boy!

No, no test.

I'm not confused but I think you are.

So, again, is Judaism a religion or a nationality?

It's OK to say if you don't know.

Because lots of people are British (nationality) and Muslim (religion). One can in fact be multiple things. I for example am Dutch, atheist, (nationality, belief) lefty (political affiliation), feminist ,(also an affiliation). See how it works?

Are non practicing Jews , Jewish?

Judaism is a religion. Some think it is also an ethnicity. It is not a nationality.

@Daffodildahlia doesn’t think that Eid should be celebrated in Britain even those it’s the faith of several million British people

Judaism can be thought of as being simultaneously a religion, a nationality and a culture.

I'm surprised at how many people don't know that.

I've never said that at all.

Please stop putting words in my mouth.

You seem to have a real problem, with this - care to explain why?

Well yes there doesn't need to be a label but many people go on about the UK being a "Christian" country when less than half the population actually considers themselves Christian.

How can Judaism be a nationality?
There is no country called "Jewish".
Even Israel has non Jewish citizens.

England has an established Church.
Its bishops sit in the House of Lords.
The King is both head of state and also supreme governor of the Church of England.
One of the monarch's titles is Defender of the Faith.
Because of this, anyone that claims the UK is not a Christian country ignores both historical and constitutional reality..
The legal system was founded on the Christian principles of justice and fairness,
So it is impossible to deny the UK is a Christian country without attempting to rewrite history and ignore our heritage.

You have posted that you don’t think Eid is a British custom when it obviously is if you look at the celebrations across the UK at Eid.

That's my opinion. which I am entitled to have.

However, I never said I thought people shouldn't celebrate it.

I don't think Diwali is a British Festival but don't have an issue with people marking that (likewise the Chinese New Year)

It depends which Jewish authority you talk to.

Some class it as an ethno-religious group, others as a Nation.