Hmm, i am clearly, despite my lack of belief in a specific Godhead, not much of an athiest, nor particularly agnostic!

Religious education...? Ceremonies and holidays i am honest about. Christmas ISN'T about trees and presents, it's about the birth of Christ and i present it from that POV. I talk to DD about it as a possibility because it is one. I don't paint it as truth, but i let her know others believe it to be so. Likewise Easter, Hanukkah, Eid and so on (luckily i have many friends of many religions). If she wanted to go to Church, Synagogue, Temple or Mosque then i would take her and if she wanted to stay for a service i would stay with her. My job as i see it is to support her learning and i aim to do so without too much direction because i believe that every person's relationship with Eternity (or god or destiny or the Beyond or WHATEVER they believe in, even if it is permanent and final death) is so personal that interferance from others isn't helpful. If she were to grow up to be a devoutly religious person who believed strongly in a Faith i wouldn't be disappointed or sad. I want her to find fulfillment and for many many people religion is a strong factor in that.

Funnily enough my mum wasn't religious, but she did have a bible reading in her funeral service, which she had planned out before she died (she had plenty of warning). She had a humanist service but at some point in it she had a reading from the bible, from revelations, about god wiping away all tears and taking pain and suffering away. She wrote in her plan "Though i haven't been to church since i was a child, I know many of the people i know ARE religious, and those that CAN be comforted, in whichever way you can, SHOULD be." She never subscribed to the "religion as a crutch" POV many non-religious people do. As she saw it we all have to find our way to happiness in this life and the route isn't important, the happiness is.

Bx