Wicca, Raelism, Animism, Christianity…
- Until 2008, the curriculum of Montreal’s (private) Catholic Loyola High School included a course called “Morals and World Religions” (MWR). MWR taught students the basic history and tenets of other major religions from the Catholic perspective, which is presumably what the students’ parents were paying for.
- In 2008, however, Quebec introduced a province-wide program called Ethics and Religious Culture (ERC) running throughout elementary school, and all but one high school year.
- Every Quebec student — even the homeschooled — is obligated to take this state-composed program.
- And teachers, whatever their beliefs or religious affiliation, must teach it.
- The ERC’s mandate is to introduce students to Quebec’s diversity of religions and cultures with “absolute respect for every religious position.
- ” As a short perusal of ERC’s culturally relativistic texts makes clear, Wicca, Raëlism, aboriginal animism or even a student’s own invented religion are all accorded equal spiritual standing with Christianity.
- This is an untenable intellectual perspective, and obviously one that stands in opposition to Catholic teachings.
- Yet no child may be exempted on grounds that the ERC might negatively impact confidence in his own religion.
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