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  • #202
    Kidchameleon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,482 ✭✭✭Kidchameleon


    smacl wrote: »
    My eldest, in 2nd year in a Catholic girls school, for religion homework recently had to write an essay on the ways in which religion affected her life. She wrote a small note on the top of the page explaining that as an atheist, religion didn't affect her life, and wrote an essay on the discovery of the Higgs Boson instead. I'd dearly love to know how that one went down in the staff room, and look forward to the next parent teacher meeting. FWIW, she also got the award for best academic results in the year last year, and gets on very well in the school and with her classmates and teachers, so outside of the odd spark, the Catholic education seems to suit her quite well. I was rather surprised, and expected she'd want to ditch it after a year, but horses for courses and all that.

    What makes you think it went "down" in any fashion? Seems like a perfectly legit essay for the question at hand. The teacher most likely gave as much as a toss about it as they did every other essay for that assignment ie. feck all.


  • #203
    Banbh
    Registered Users Posts: 1,037 ✭✭✭Banbh


    the Catholic education seems to suit her quite well.
    Does she like the bit where woman was made from a man's rib?


  • #204
    smacl
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 15,785 Mod ✭✭✭✭smacl


    Banbh wrote: »
    Does she like the bit where woman was made from a man's rib?

    That she's taught that some Christian's believe such nonsense probably doesn't do much more than make her happy to be an atheist, but wouldn't worry her overmuch beyond that. Mind you, after the transubstantiation fiasco, she doesn't take much of what Christians believe in that seriously. As a teenage girl, the single most important thing about atheism is not having to get out of bed on a Sunday morning.


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