Thursday, 26 September 2013

Atheism to be taught in Irish schools

It has been announced that Atheism will be taught in Irish schools.

I'm trying to imagine what the curriculum for this will look like.

How do you teach people about NOT believing in something? How long would that take?

The answer, apparently, is that "there will be a module of 10 classes of between 30 to 40 minutes from the ages of four upwards".

Amazing.

Perhaps they intend to tackle the main religions one-by-one.They could do them in descending order of populatity:
  • Why Christians are wrong
  • Why Muslims are wrong
  • Why Hindus are wrong
  • Why Buddhists are wrong
Having said all that, the "Why Scientologists are wrong" one would be quite entertaining when they get to it!