[Samuel.]

I'm atheist myself. I think RE needs to be thrown in with History at this point, with perhaps a politics-based class introduced instead.

I'm not sure I understand their point here though. With it being a range of religious buildings the school trips are visiting, it's not as if any one particular religion is being encouraged.

The one benefit from teaching religion is that it introduces different cultural beliefs to students and I think that's good for expanding their minds to being understanding and respectful to those cultures, and I think it could be more harmful than anything by sheltering a child from that.