All Ages Did religion subjects make you more religious?

For the children themselves though, and let's be honest they should be the important ones, religious education classes will seem a bit of a waste of time, and especially if they don't have any sort of affiliation with any religion anyway. They don't see that religious education lessons are offering more than just teaching them about the actual religion, and while as the child gets older they might be able to get a lot out of the lessons, at an early age I think that what time religious education takes up, can be used for other more useful subjects.
 
Really? I thought they teach us to be a good person! Religion I studied for almost 10 years now taught me how to behave correctly, how to interact and raise my kids as to be respected and agreed in the society. Not to please me or the Vatican. It requires discipline. Do they teach that in Malta? The Bible teach to be fair and live in Justice. If the church or any authority on Earth don't teach that, it leads to what we live today: unlawful, disrespect, lies, war, abuse etc.
 
Religious education classes will have changed a lot since I left school, as we're talking over twenty years ago now, but from what I remember it was more about the actual teachings of the various religions, rather than trying to interpret them and make them count in that days society. I think that's why a lot of parents, especially those that didn't follow any religion thought that RE was a waste of time, and like I said, a lot of parents at that time asked why the subject had to be taught, when their child may have been struggling in other areas.

They would rather their child do extra English or science than do an hour or to of RE class every week, and looking at it from that perspective I can see why.
 
It's up to each person. If you try to interpret the Bible for instance, you will end up disgusted. The problem is: people try to take what they like and put apart the rest. Doing so is not recommended and lead people to give up on religion. My kids (2 boys) are raised with Bible instruction, and their daily life is FAR different from what the common person think about religion. They are like normal kids without preaching to everybody. I think religion lost its power over the current system of belief.
 
Well the short answer here is no, but I think that it would be foolish to say that they had no effect on me or that I did not learn anything. I can say that if I were more religious, I believe that they would have helped ground my faith a little more, which I think is a good thing for people. I just do not really have certain beliefs, and in that sense every person is different, and thus their experiences and reactions to these classes will be different. It is interesting to think about though, so thank for sharing.
 
I have taught in some schools which were set up with religion as their main focus. Strangely, I did not find anything really different. Those schools looked very much like other non-religious schools. The only difference that I could discern was the attire. The religious schools had uniforms which set them apart. Other than that, the teachers were, more or less, like teachers elsewhere. And the students were like students elsewhere. Some good, some not so good, some outright bad. Some hardworking, some couldn't care less, some outright lazy.

So, I have not seen how making religion as a subject makes any change to the teachers or the students.
 
Religion teach us how God made us and what is the purpose of our life. It teach us a lot of things about life too, BUT it lets us make the choice. If a religion impose you something, then it is wrong. We always have a choice to behave badly or not, we have the choice on what we're gonna do today. Religion doesn't limit our action but it puts some guidelines which we choose to follow or not. Giving these guidelines will make us a better person or not. Some called it discipline.
 
lindbergh said:
For those who have religion subjects, what do you think is the purpose? Is it to spread the word about religion? Is it to make you a believer? Is it to make you go to church more often? Is it to make you a good person?
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Learning about religion doesn't make someone a good person. Look at all the hypocrites who go to church every Sunday or Sunday.

Fact is religion did and still does have a huge impact not only in history but also on current events. How would people know why jihadis are willing to kill innocent people unless they know something about Islam and radical Islam? How would they tell the difference between the two so they don't hate all Muslims?

This is why religion has to be taught in schools because the world is fast embracing diversity. To get to know your neighbors better you need to know something about their religion.
 
I hope nobody believes that going to church makes a person a hypocrite. I dare say there are as many hypocrites who go to church as there are who don't go to church. Hypocrisy has no direct relationship to religion. If a person is a hypocrite, that's because of his attitude and not because of his religion.
 
I don't know about everyone else here, but I was brought up in a Christian household, and we went to church every week. I'm grown up now, and I make my own choices on religion and spiritualism, and I've actually moved more to spiritualism. But I have to say that the religious background helped me a lot throughout my life. And I intend to do the same for my kids and give them that basic foundation of religion.
 
Studying religious education made me to know more about God. It helped me know about good morals that make me fit in the society that I come from. I had to learn about a few scriptures which positively affected my thinking and my faith. Religious education subjects should not be abolished from the syllabuses.
 
I studied in a catholic based school and no, the religious subjects did not make me any more religious whatsoever, it somehow helped me to figure out what I wanted for my life and that sort of thing, other than that, I'm the same.
 
Most of my religious knowledge came from.the religious school that I had attended. Of course I knew the superficial of everything but nothing deep.

At such classes I learnt real value and meaning behind LIFE and I am veey proud of that.

These classes has certainly made me realise the reason of my birth and living.
 
I agree with this. Religion subject will make you more religious. Your knowledge increased and the tendency to be religious is great.
 
For me, it didn't. It was nice knowing all about the saints and the stories in the Bible, but I remember studying it like it's a history subject. Maybe it's the way it was taught, I can't really say. I was a more devout Catholic back when I was younger.
 
To me, religious studies was fiction. I studied it properly with maximum effort. I answered questions on the test paper with the proper way. I simply did it for the grades.
 
In our religion subject, I memorized the 66 books of the Bible. The old testament has 39 books. The New testament has 27 books.
 
To be more religious is up to the person. He will be religious if he chooses to do it. We all have the free will.
 
No, religion did not make me a religious person. I mean, I still don't go to church on Sundays. Religion made me understand God. It made me realize that their is more to than just praying, going to church, attending mass. It made me understand that more than that, an unwavering faith is more important.
 
I think religion is taught in school to make you understand more the religion and how it came came out to be. Being religious is something that you feel.
 
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