In Croatian schools children are taught that atheists are unacceptable fools who have to be suppressed!

In Croatian schools children are taught that atheists are unacceptable fools who have to be suppressed!

Within the European Union, each State has the right to regulate the question of religious education in secular schools.

A few countries do not have Religious Education included in their curriculum; many schools have it as General Religious Culture, and some of them have Religious Education as an obligatory subject. In many schools which have some form of religious education, this subject is elective.

The subject is not really elective in Croatia until high school because in primary school children have only one option. Catholics have their lessons guaranteed, while others are allowed to organize their time by themselves.

Religious Education as it exists in the Croatian education system is only presented as elective, but in practice the only "choice" is to attend the class or to have to attend the class given that there is no alternative.

Those who do decide not to attend the class usually are not adequately taken care of; they sit unattended in school halls, libraries or - in the religion class. But that is not the only problem.

The content of religious education (the name of the class contains the word “science” in the Croatian Language - "vjeronauk") is fundamentally at odds with all other school subjects, because the "science" is reduced only to belief, not much different from any other superstition.

Children are often taught completely opposite things in the same day: from the creation of the Earth to evolution, sexuality, family planning, and so on.

Never will a child get a good grade if it tells in biology class that spirits can make babies, nor in chemistry class if it tells that altar bread becomes a body by magical invocation, nor can a child claim in physics class that Our Lady can hover on the bubble. Why would you then consciously choose for secular schools to teach what is contrary to the complete school programme?

If we do not teach children how to make astrological charts or tell fortune from beans, there is no need to teach them oxymora such as the "religious truth".

The biggest problem of such teachings is reflected in the expansion of hatred and intolerance toward others and toward those who are different – from the attitude toward homosexuals (they are equalled to paedophiles), people of other nationalities, other religions, to the attitude towards unbelievers.

For example, in the textbook “With Christ through Life” for the 8th grade, primary schools tech small believers (about 86% of all primary school children) that atheists are people brought up without God and therefore are willing to create something as Auschwitz (despite the fact that Auschwitz was created by those brought up with the idea that God existed), that atheists are absolutely unacceptable, that they are egoistic fools whose number should be gradually reduced through the imposition of Christian belief, the so-called "civilization of love".

The authors of the textbook quote Pope John Paul II: "Atheism means godlessness, that is - upbringing without God. They claim it is an expression of progress. From the most recent events, we know there is no upbringing of noble people without God and against God. Very often exactly those raised without God and against God are like those who created Auschwitz." 

Pope John Paul II stood on the shoulders of medieval inquisitors who had certainly been brought up with the idea that God existed. And through all the centuries of Christianization, censorship, persecution, murder, blackmail, they educated generations with the idea that God existed. 

The crimes of the Catholic Church are enormous and it is beyond belief that all the priests who commit crimes have to do is apologize and they are once again seen as spiritual and moral authorities to whom people are willing to surrender their children for "education".

Pope Pius XII, the so-called Hitler's Pope, once said - "Hitler's war is a noble act to defend European culture.”

Hitler’s war was a noble act, but an atheist cannot be a noble person.

The same textbook further educates children that too much knowledge and technological progress is harmful because people no longer need God, forget all the ethical and moral principles, and they begin to behave like - atheists.

By now we have already learnt that atheists have no moral principles.

What is the message we send to little believers? The textbook teaches them that atheist should be converted through the imposition of their belief.

This sounds as a “final solution” and if someone wonders why profascist ideology is getting stronger in the country, they should peak into educational institution that allow and properly implement such “education”.

The controversial textbook has been reported several times, but there have been no serious reactions by the responsible authorities, except for the Ombudsman for Children, who recognized the problem and reported it to the Ministry of Education and the Croatian Conference of Bishops three years ago. The textbook is still unchanged and teaches new generations of hatred and exclusion.

The problem is not in the fact that everyone has the right to "choose" not to send their children to attend religious class, but in the fact that the majority of a single people is taught that those who are exceptions should be converted.
Little Croats learn in these classes that they have to evangelize their fellow students and friends who do not believe. In the world in which everyone has the right to freedom of belief everyone should also have the right not to believe.

Society and humanity will evolve the moment when religious beliefs are given the exact same attention as any other superstition.

Who wants to bring up their child in a religion, they can always send it to temples made for that, but to openly raise generations of haters within secular schools and without sanctions should be condemned.