So, my son attends school at the church

[Catholic_Lady]

I think it's a conspiracy. That school is trying to take over the world for Christianity by making the kids do T's that look like crosses. This will work on their subconscious to make them Christian whether they want to be or not.

I wouldn't put it past the bastards.

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[robvalue]

I heard that when they executed someone but weren't quite sure if they did it, they nailed them to a big question mark instead of a T.

[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.

[Faith No More]

Because it's Montessori, it shouldn't be religious unless one of the teachers is trying to sneak it in.  My son goes to Montessori at a church, but there's nothing religious about his schooling.  It just happens to be in a church.  For a while they were learning a different letter every week, so I would imagine this was part of that.  

Montessori has a specific curriculum, and there is nothing religious about it.  I wouldn't worry about it if my son brought it home.  It's just a "t."

[Catholic_Lady]

This is so ridiculous, I was kind of thinking it was probably a troll post. But now that I'm seeing some other people actually take it seriously, I don't even know anymore. This is extremely silly, guys.

[abaris]

This is extremely silly, guys.

Agreed, but pending final judgmet until the kid says what message came with the image.

[Aoi Magi]

You never see kids talking religion with each other or preaching it to each other cause they don't believe in it. They just go with the flow.

Either you haven't (luckily) met the brainwashed kids in your part of the world, or they haven't found you.

[ErGingerbreadMandude]

You never see kids talking religion with each other or preaching it to each other cause they don't believe in it. They just go with the flow.

That's not true. When I was a kid I was big on preaching

[Exian]

[proffesor] ok, so "trix". Why the peculiar spelling of tricks? The "x" is important. Let's remove it and place it at the beginning: "Xtri" aka "christri". Now lets remove the second "r" because it doesn't fit what I want to believe: "christi". So if we follow through with our eyes, we see "Christi" and a "t" >>> "Christi and a t" >>> "Christiandat" >>> "Christianity"... WAKE UP! [/professor]

[Edwardo Piet]

I heard that when they executed someone but weren't quite sure if they did it, they nailed them to a big question mark instead of a T.