The supreme court in the UK has ruled that the Northen Irish Religious Education syllabus is unlawful, due to the “teaching of religion is not objective, critical and pluralistic” (Just grabbed that quote from the linked article, I have not read the judgement fully myself ). I had no idea this was ongoing, but I fully agree with the ruling.

This is so long overdue. Here is the syllabus from 2017 onwards for the exam board my old school used.

Syllabus

6/9ths of it is Christian focussed… It doesn’t really set pupils up for a world with a varied set of beliefs. Even the two religions that are not Christianity are still Abrahamic! it is kind of laughable to say this is “Religious Studies” rather than “Christianity Studies”. Hopefully this ruling will mean students in NI get proper RE lessons that are not mired in sectarianism from the off.

Schools could even choose if they wanted to focus on catholicism or protestantism for one of the modules… I wonder how schools on either side of the divide chose 🤔 🤔 🤔