Hey,
I’m curious to know what role religion plays in your day to day live as I am myself from the east of Germany which was called by the guardian the most godless place on earth a few years back and I only know very few religious people personally. My few run ins with religous folks have all been rather nice so far. Of course there’s still influences of religion in Germany as a whole but not really in my day to day live and the whole topic of religion always leaves me kind of baffled when I try to understand it, especially since there are some weird concepts that I just don’t understand logically but it seems to be rather important to a lot of people. On the flip side it seems that it’s rather important to you to proclaim that you’re non religious. Why’s that?
Oh yeah right that one exists in some states! In my home state we don’t have that or at least it’s not mandatory. We have Leben, Ethik, Religion (Life, Ethics, Religion) instead as a mandatory class. There we talked about a whole bunch of stuff and looking back it was surprisingly progressiv. For instance we talked about Transgender and Intersexual issues in the early 2000s. We also talked about female genital mutilation. Furthermore we talked about general ethics and got an overview of the world religions like Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Christianity and Judaism.