• Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    12 hours ago

    In our school (Germany, BW) we had two types of religion class: Ethics and “regular”.
    Ethics were for anyone opting out of regular classes (I believe before 14 only with consent of the parents). Regular was split between protestants and catholics. And basically nothing else than talking about the bible and it’s stories.
    And I can’t remember it being anything else than just discussing the stories.
    What I heard about ethics class was also nothing like you are suggesting. While it seemed to take a view over every religion (seemingly primarily christian and muslim) it was also about ethics with and between animals and humans.

    And afaik the christian classes were with teachers that had theological focus (but afaik not studied)