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Originally Posted by tweetiepooh
My kids school RE is mostly "christian" with some "islam". The local 6th form has a syllabus focussed on "buddhism". (small letters deliberate - I know their teaching on the Christian faith is very different from what I call Christianity - guessing the same is true for other faiths.
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I've said this a few times over the years, but I had two RE teachers at school. I had an Irish Catholic RE teacher for four years, who basically taught us that Catholocism and Christianity are good, everything else is bad or unimportant.
Then, he left (retired I think) and a younger, Jewish RE teacher took over. He taught us about all of the major world religions. He taught the history behind the beliefs, and also taught us to question what we are told (a good rule for life beyond RE and something I still do). We even had a whole lesson discussing whether we thought Jesus was homosexual (IIRC we came to the conclusion that while there was no evidence in the Bible that Jesus had a sexual attraction to anyone, he probably leaned that way), which I can't imagine my other RE teacher even allowing.
Now, I know my second teacher's niece (she is a friend of my sister) and apparently he is extremely religious, and was when he was teaching me. He still taught us to question religion though. He also continually drummed in to use that it was important we found our own beliefs. If we chose to believe a given religion, that was good. If we chose to believe in Atheism, that was good also. If we chose not to believe in Religion, that was good.