Religious education is fine when teaching about a wide variety of faiths to enhance children's understanding of other cultures/their own culture (which by and large is what we got at Mackie).
Where it breaks down is when it start teaching one religious view as the truth and imposing that religion's prejudices on other subjects (science and history for example).
Religion should be seperate from schools, just as it should be seperate from the trappings of state. That doesn't mean pupils shouldn't learn about religion as a concept though. |