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.

but if and with respect if anyone does not believe then why would they continue the stories or myths etc ? in an era of global science and information etc why carry on stories from books written by people for people as if they are some sort of truth ?

apologies if i could have written it better

Especially if they have more than five currants? Traditionally, they only had five, to represent the five wounds of Jesus.

It's funny how comments about "sky fairies" and "made up stories" are allowed to stand when discussing Christianity. I'd imagine that if they were about any other religion, MNHQ would be memory-holing them out of existence.

Ēostre is an Anglo-Saxon Goddess feasts were held in her honour during the month named after her : Ēosturmōnaþ (April).

Christian ?

It is surprising they don't know the Christian Easter story in a Catholic school. Our kids were taught the story at their secular primary and "yes Jesus loves me" was being played in the playground at collection today, a song I haven't heard since I was a child!

It is also surprising that many Christians don't know about Eostre/Ostara which explains the basis for many of our Easter traditions with eggs/bunnies etc. Similarly with Christmas and Yule.

My DC have been taught about the religious side of Easter at primary school - is it not on the curriculum and therefore school’s responsibility to teach it?

I am not religious, we do not go to church, I look at Christmas as a winter festival and Easter as a spring festival so I’m not going to teach my DC about the religious side when I don’t believe in it myself.

But the very valid personal choice not to follow xtianity still means your kids are subjected to xtian worship at school, because of hideously outdated legislation. So if anything, the OP’s issue is minor compared to the number of non-xtian children being forced to practice it daily. Boils my piss.

I see it as something people pick up as they go along. Either from school or just in general but I don't think parents should actively teach it if they aren't religious.

I'm a Christian and Easter is important to me, but I don't expect others to actively teach their children about it.

I do judge parents who don't explain things to kids when they ask. So "why do have pancakes on pancake day" shouldn't be met with "because we do" and "why do we have eggs on Easter" should also be appropriately explained.

And before anyone comes at me, I explain eggs as being a hangover from the pagan spring celebration symbolising new beginnings and rebirth which was coopted by early Christians.

Depends whether you believe in those events. We don’t believe in the resurrection as it’s an impossibility.

DT’s went to school where religious education was banned from the curriculum.

Honestly OP, your drip feeds have made this thread pointless. What you meant was "Is it unreasonable of me to judge parents who are Irish and send their children to a Catholic school for... etc".

And herein lies the problem. I was brought up Catholic, & went to Catholic school & truly believe religion does not belong in schools. If those who have faith wish to educate their children in that faith it can be done at home/ in the community.

All children should have the option of learning about all faiths & belief systems & morality & philosophy in school; note the word 'option'.

How does what other people believe or know affect you in ANY way?

You can tell kids, but for so many it has almost no meaning until they are much older and starting to engage with how different beliefs impact the way people live. So they often forget and don’t make the associations.

My kids learnt about Pass over, Easter, the nativity, the flood, and a bunch of others. Along with some Islamic and Hindu festivals. But they are just stories to them at that age and a bit mad in some ways. So they don’t hold onto that information too well and fail to make the connections.

But it keeps getting repeated and eventually they pick it up.

I am more judgy of religious people who don’t know their own religions. Worked with a Christian once who had no idea Muslims worshipped the same God she did. She was bloody ignorant and I judged her a lot.

but how can anyone believe in Christianity, when the majority is copyed from pagan influences ? if Christianity was truly its own religion then why did the leaders of the day choose to include pagan rituals and believes etc

I think it's a bit shite! But I suppose if they still don't know at 16 then it becomes more embarassing.

This is definitely what Reform should be raging about, with their newfound Christian Zeal.

The shit happening all over the world is real. And dealt with in a sensible news article kind of way. And grisly details are not told to children.

Whereas this is about a man dying hideously and then it’s celebrated with a chocolate egg. It’s very strange.

I honestly find it shocking that anyone would think children shouldn’t learn about the cultural traditions of their own country. You don’t have to be a Christian to understand where Easter comes from.

I find it genuinely concerning that some parents would choose not to teach their children something so fundamental. Like I say, whether you believe it or not is irrelevant - it’s basic cultural knowledge.

YABU. Easter (or Eostre) is a pagan festival that Christians picked up on and wedged their own beliefs onto. You can't criticise others when you have been brainwashed into believing it's something it's not yourself

I know i should not say this but i wonder how many of these posters who blatantly mock christianity and Catholics, were first to try to get an Irish passport after Brexit.
Christian values are very much upheld in Ireland. So you don't want to respect snd uphold our beliefs, you just want to grab the passport!

If you’re a Christian then sure, hopefully your children have picked it up by now.

What about those of us who aren’t Christians?

You can say the same about many religions. Like Christianity and Islam hopping on the shirt-tails of Judaism.

My kids went to non religious school, but were taught about Christianity, Judaism, Hindu, Muslim , even visited Mosques and Syngaogues. Surprised the school hasn’t taught them this.

You know why. Because 90% of the schools nationwide are catholic even doh thats not the case now as they are just public with an ethos. There is one educate together school in most catchments. 50 % of the population are non practising or non catholic at this stage.

Yep Easter was appropriated from the pagans by Christianity.

It's not just a Christian festival

Can you tell me where ‘Easter’ is mentioned in the bible? It’s a spring festival that was hijacked by Christians and actually has nothing to do with religion apart from the church stealing the festival of Eostre.

But Christians have chosen the timings for their festivals so that they coincide with things like the equinoxes/ arrival of spring etc, I think part of it was to override pagan ones. I just asked my 7 year old and she knew because they discussed it at school. She knows about other religious festivals, we are atheists. If she got chocolate or presents at the other festivals I think she’d be very good at remembering them during the year but she doesn’t :)

Lots of people didn’t want Brexit because it’s crazy self harm and understandably want their rights back, nothing to do with Christianity… (I’m getting a Portuguese passport)

but the 2 are not linked, you can get one without believing in the other and one is from an economic point for the passport ?