Now, this is something I have an issue with... In the UK, we have faith schools, which are open about teaching their various dogmas. I specifically sent our kid to a non-church school because I wanted to protect her from indoctrination. In this school, they teach about the various faiths and their beliefs — even ancient polytheisms, and I'm fine and dandy with that.

BUT they also bring in the local Vicar and the Baptist minister to run faith-based assemblies, including praying and teaching the Christian myths as factual. One recent lesson, our daughter reported was about 'how can we make Jesus happy?'...

Pisses me right off, but if I stomp in there and demand our kid is excluded from these assemblies I worry that it would single her out. So I've opted to let her be, but just do all I can to promote critical thinking in her and hope that she finds her way through it without getting drawn in.

She states that she doesn't believe, but we encourage her to think about WHY she holds that position, not just to go with what her Mum and Dad say (she's eight, so she still has a way to go). I'm not shy about letting her know my objections to faith and I'm pretty clued-in on astrophysics and geology etc, so I can teach her plenty of the scientific viewpoint. But we're leaving it down to her to put it all together as she grows up.

@SallyMc It's.... Kind of the way it works over here. Strange that we're a largely non-religious country and pretty chilled about religion, yet we work on a distinctly non-secular, archaic system of government with church and state well and truly entwined.