I take your point on the pagans and without wishing to doubt the sincerity of their beliefs I am sceptical about the direct line of theological thought. I'm not convinced they are practicing the same religion as the British pagans of pre-Roman Britain. I'm not sure we've got anyway of knowing given how keen the Romans and later Christians were to extirpate the druids.
I think my point is two-fold when looking at RME from the point of a practicing atheist. Firstly, that there are whole belief systems that have more or less entirely fallen from being a theology to being a series of colourful myths and secondly that there are whole systems and heirarchies of religion that used to be very influential but are now not at all influential. No one consults the Delphic Oracle any more. No one even knows what Stonehenge was for. So what questions does that provoke for a school-aged child?
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Date: 2018-04-02 08:58 am (UTC)I think my point is two-fold when looking at RME from the point of a practicing atheist. Firstly, that there are whole belief systems that have more or less entirely fallen from being a theology to being a series of colourful myths and secondly that there are whole systems and heirarchies of religion that used to be very influential but are now not at all influential. No one consults the Delphic Oracle any more. No one even knows what Stonehenge was for. So what questions does that provoke for a school-aged child?