Why is RE called Religious Education?

Question

When I studded it, they should have called it Christianity studies.

I spent 5 years learning that stuff (not that i ever paid any attention) and as a class we had about 3hrs on different religions.

We spent more time talking about abortion than we did on other religions.

What gives?

Cheers Mark D

Answer 1

When I went to school, we spent about one term learning about other religions of the world. The rest was learning about the Roman Catholic religion, because I went to a Catholic School. But I think that they have to teach a certain amount of other religions in the R.E curriculum, and schools of a certain faith teach the minimum they have to in order to comply with the law. You are right though!

Answer 2

When I went to Religious Ed classes, we studied the bible. I guess today, it's called Bible Study class. We discussed how the bible was not to be taken literally and how it was a collection of memories and stories passed down through the generations until the words were finally recorded in written form. We talked about the differences between the Old Testament and the New Testament. I had a really good teacher :-)

We spent a lot of time discussing moral/ethics and living as good Christians (I'm not Catholic). We learned about different religions too. As part of our studies, we attended services at Synagogues, Catholic churches, Baptist churches, Methodist churches, etc...

Answer 3

Now you know what religion is all about. It is not so much about the religion itself, but more about the negative effects its dogma has on people's lives all around the world. Religion is all about effects, the suffering it causes, the killings, the bombings, all of this in the name of religion. So religion focuses on interference and manipulation of people's lives, and abortion is one of the areas in which the effects of religion have an impact on people. Thus the primary product of religion is not spiritual enlightenment and knowledge but rather physical pain and suffering caused by church dogma and propaganda.

Religious education really should be called something more like Religious War and Oppression.

Answer 4

I think it depends on the curriculum you follow.
I learned about loads of different religions in the first few years of school. You just had to specialise for GCSE as it went more in depth about belief and customs, so we did predominantly Christianity and Judaism.
I was lucky enough to have a really interesting course - some schools *just* teach what's in the GCSE and A level syllabus

Answer 5

If someone is religeous, they may not believe in abortion.
Religeon is very very good way of controlling people - fear factor etc.

If You were told from birth that if you drank milk, you would spend the whole of eternity in burning pain and constant hell (and of course, there is no way of proving otherwise, (coz you would be dead)), then woyuld you risk it and drink the milk?
maybe....
OK, so say that your entire family believed this, and the whole street....infact the majority of your country! Now would you drink the milk.....What if there were horror films about the place, (hell), to give you nightmares?

Just think of religeon as I do.

Who ever invented this brain washing trick, must have been good, and probably rich!

Answer 6

"Do what thou wilt is the whole of the law."
I know, most of the time classes make it seem the only religion there is, is Christianity, we need more than that. There other things with other values that can be learned. Oh and by the way nice Alex Grey avatar.
"Love is the Law, love under will."

Answer 7

Because the course is meant to identify different religions, and introduce you to a variety of traditions. So even if you did spend a lot of time discussing Christianity, you still discussed other religions. And if that didn't happen then your teacher is to blame.

Answer 8

Slowly the other stuff is coming in. There is one school i know where you could choose the christian or buddhist stream.

But i think basically they teach RE because the christians want to teach you christianity, and they don't call it christian studies to hide the fact.

Answer 9

I went to a Catholic colleges (ordinary and secondary) and the RE that we did we also learnt about Islam, Judaism and also accessible ones like primalism. to boot as Catholicism and different Christian denominations obviously. Admittedly this became in reality after I went to secondary college, no longer ordinary. yet my sister is going to a distinct Catholic college than I did and had to do a similar ingredient and in reality had to bypass to a Islam temple (I forget what they are referred to as), and the handbook made them face Mecca and pray. So it truly is my impact that gaining understanding of about different religions is portion of the Catholic curriculum and that i'd discover it strange if it wasn't portion of the state's. i imagine that in case you had per chance taken it secondary college you've gotten found it truly is distinct. They likely might want to have taken extra of a bypass portion of international religions. yet I do imagine a heavier concentration on Christianity looks proper in NZ. no longer because i'm heavily Christian (i'm no longer quite, I have a tendency to have my own beliefs) yet even with the reality that NZ is very often a mundane society it truly is guidelines are outfitted round Christian values. Christianity became used to maintain status quo in Europe for hundreds of years and it spread with the colonies. it truly is slightly distinct now obviously, yet any such tremendous type of of our values, guidelines, and way of existence is very depending and stem from Christianity.

Answer 10

We were told in RE (RI then,30 years ago) that we couldn't possibly hope to learn about other religions until we fully understood Christianity.