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.

@ItTook9Years the OP’s issue is minor compared to the number of non-xtian children being forced to practice it daily. Boils my piss

If you are so concerned that your urine is passing 100deg C on a regular basis, why don't you home school your kids ?

I’m surprised kids have made it to age 9 in a Catholic school without this coming up.

I am equally scathing about all sky fairies.

Every single religious festival builds on ones that came before them. That doesn't invalidate anything, it just provides a deeper layer of meaning and understanding, should you choose to study it in that sort of depth.

It still makes people a bit dim if they can't articulate the historical or cultural origins of their own country's significant festivals.

I believe you mean secular, non-secular would mean religious

Not sad for us as we're not Christians 🙄

@Tuliptana is RE not on the curriculum in your school?

but then for a religion that then claims to be the true one seems odd, its like somes copy of a copy of a copy and then 5 copies later they say our copy is the one and only true religion ?

Oh my kids know the fairy story about it because school pushed the narrative of some random guy being so super special he died and came back to life shortly after their sister died, and they were convinced she was special enough to come back to life too.

I've made damned sure they know the bible is as fictional as the wizard of oz.

The sooner the Bible start being taught as a book of stories rather than fact the better.

About 45, maybe nearer 50 years ago, my schoolmate didn't know what Easter was about. Most of the rest of us did, but there's always been folk who let things like that go over their head. This was near Glasgow. My mum was a churchgoer, but I don't think any of the rest of them were.

I know this is just a jokey post but I've actually been wondering this recently - if we're not religious - and by the posts on here so far most people aren't, then should we appropriate another's religious festival for ourselves?

Most posts on here aren't even just saying "I'm not Christian" they are actively mocking those who are. Why? Why the mind set of "I'm going to celebrate this religion based festival entirely my own way and at the same time mock the original source of it" . Why that sense of entitlement and lack of the most basic respect? I genuinely don't get it.

For the record I'm an Atheist myself.

Is is Christian to be soooooo judgmental???
one of the reasons I stopped believing in god when I was younger is because all my relatives who went to church were arseholes and the ones who didn’t were kind and lovely.

But it's a fairy tale. Religion is rubbish. So why would we, in an educated society no longer working with medieval science, teach children about God?

i still say jesus just fainted for a bit, i mean afterall what medical understanding did they have back then etc

Think you’re taking this a bit far now!

People can live where they want (within reason of course).

if kids at a catholic school in a predominantly catholic region don’t know the story of Jesus etc then that’s the schools fault surely.

im sure lots of people enrolled in their kids into a school regardless of its religion otherwise this wouldn’t have happened.

what do you think the reason is OP? @Tuliptana

if you want to blame the parents then clearly religion isn’t a concern of theirs

the two schools closest to me are C of E. We don’t believe at all but we had little choice and suck it up as the rest of the school is fab.

i also agree with other posters that what’s in the bible is very different to how Easter is depicted in other ways. We eat eggs, do egg hunts and go to the lambing. It’s a spring festival with chocolate for us!

Why though? For a lot of people who are not Christian its a long weekend off work.

I do like chocolate though.

@RawBloomers "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."

No, I am afraid it is you who is misinformed.

Islam emphasizes strict monotheism (Tawhid) the belief in the oneness of God. There is no division or multiplicity in God’s nature. Allah is compassionate, merciful, just, and transcendent. He is beyond human comprehension and has no partners, children, or equals.

In Christianity, God is also seen as the creator and sustainer of the universe, sharing similar attributes of omnipotence, mercy, and justice. However, Christians uniquely believe in the Holy Trinity: God as three persons in one essence—God the Father, God the Son (Jesus Christ), and God the Holy Spirit.
This concept of Trinitarian monotheism distinguishes Christianity from Islam and Judaism, both of which reject the Trinity in favor of absolute monotheism.

It’s a disaster in so many ways but what can you do. I was queueing at the shops behind a mum who was excitedly telling her kids about how at the weekend the Easter bunny was going to be bringing them all their presents. Sometimes we just live in different worlds.

I'm not mocking anyone, but will note that my own Irish relatives are all atheists.

I don't think it's right that anyone should mock your beliefs. But equally, I don't think you should expect parents to teach their children about stories that may not be of any importance or significance to them.

But I still don't really understand how children in a catholic school can get to the age of 9 without knowing anything about the story of Easter.

In the world that we live in ..to be worried about a festival rather than the “tho shalt not kill etc..” shows a worrying grasp of Christian priorities

Never knew about the sister! 😆

Because it's just general knowledge?!
Even if you're not religious, I can't imagine deliberately not telling kids the origins of things.
It'll look a bit 😕if they grow up and as an adult give blank looks when they hear that it's not just about eating chocolate, and little fluffy chicks.
You know about it, why would you not let your kids know about the background like you got to do (even if you don't believe in it) if you're making bonnets etc?
Obviously in a child friendly way of course.

I mock all religions. Your Brexit link is nonsense - Mumsnet is an international site with posters from literally all over the world. I'm an EU national living in the UK who has an EU passport already. My kids are grown, but we certainly didn't go out of our way to tell them about Easter, and their C of E primary didn't go into the gruesome details either.

All religion is nonsense.

I did teach DC that some people believe that mythical beings long ago were actually real people with magic powers a bit like Superman but of course, it’s all nonsense designed to control the population and especially women.

The Easter Bunny is definitely real though. 🐇 🐰

@Tuliptana FYI I live in West Cork and there’s loads of us who find it all completely bollocks and do our best to avoid the minority of overtly religious nutters, whether Catholic and Protestant.

Surely, it’s taught in school. 🤷🏻‍♀️ That said, I’m Jewish and while my dc could tell you Easter is about the death of Jesus, that’s probably about it. They aren’t Christian and don’t go to a Christian school. But they could probably tell you more about Easter than Ramadan or Holi because it’s such a pervasive part of our culture. For us though, Easter is just about chocolate. 😂