So, my son attends school at the church

[Pat Mustard]

My wife is religious (Despite how outspoken I am; although it doesn't strain our relationship, believe it or not). As a result, my preschool son goes to Montessori at the local church (my older son attends public school).

My boys know that I don't believe in god, and they know their mom does believe in god. I'm not shy about explaining to them my reasoning and neither is she.

I'm content that my boys can discern for themselves what they believe, and I'm really not concerned with them being exposed to religious beliefs.  

With that said, here is something my son brought home from school:



Do you think this is imagery for Christianity?  Or a harmless lesson to teach the letter T?  He has never brought home any other such assignment for other letters of the alphabet.

Feel free to discuss in this thread the idea of an atheist sending his youngest son to school at a church, as well as discuss the photo I attached.

Thanks for reading!

That's about as non-christian as shitting in the woods is non-ursine. You can bet your arse that they choose that specific image to reinforce the christian message, it is extremely unusual to see or try to shape a "t" in that fashion. Pretty much the same tactic the rcc are trying to do here in Ireland with their Alive-O series of "educational" books, make god out to be everything that is good.

As the rcc is patron of 94% of (state funded, state staffed, state built) primary schools in the state and with a department requirement that all state funded schools have a religious ethos (despite the explicit constitutional ban on the endowment of religion) these propoganda books (amazing how the rcc tries to mirror the Hitler Jugend in this matter) are pretty much mandatory.