I remember some wild story about a guy who was killed by some other guys, and then buried in a cave with a big rock and who came back to life, but nobody saw it, but somehow became two other guys as well.

There was another mad story about the whole world and everything on it being built by magic over six days too, but I think they were joking about that.

The sticker book was kinda cool though, and getting a sticker for every lesson and service I attended. Not completing that before I walked out aged eight, saying "But this is all wrong" is my only regret.

I didn't go to a "religious school," but I did attend public high school in Texas.

Our health teacher was a coach, and he went over sex education. One day he said that condoms don't eliminate risk from STDs, they just reduce it by about half. Even wearing two condoms doesn't really eliminate the risk, it just reduces it by another 50%, so you've still got a 25% chance of getting something.

I was a pretty naïve kid, but even I knew that was fucking stupid.

We were taught creationism since an early age. At some point they had to teach evolution to meet government curriculum requirements, but the entire time they kept emphasising "it is just a theory!!, and there is no real evidence for it"

Oh and during the week or two when evolution was taught, suddenly all we were doing in religion class was watching videos that "debunk" evolution, and "prove" creationism

I didn’t know how messed up it was at the time, but with the hindsight of what I know now: Hebrew school telling me I could go on a free trip to Israel after my Bar mitzvah. I didn’t go mostly because I didn’t like religion or having to go to boring temple all the time, but now that I know about the genocide and the Birthright trip being this super messed up propaganda tool for impressionable teenagers I’m really glad I didn’t go.

That girls wearing shirts that showed any sort of curvature were leading boys to hell. RIP girls with anything larger than a B cup.

And then there was a transfer student I became friends with. Didn't have the words for them at the time but probably non-binary. They used a chest binder and got in trouble for that. Damned for having boobs, damned for trying to minimize them; damned for just existing.

My wife went to Catholic school in the 70s. Not sure how it came up, but someone asked how King Herod died and the nun said he ate so much his stomach exploded. My.mom went to Catholic school in the 50s. She was told that Martin Luther "ate babies"

To stay away from Father Dale (Fushek) and his hot tub parties. It wasn’t the message that creeped me out, it was the cold and guilty tone. The nuns and staff knew what was going on, but instead of police, they were just trying to move him somewhere else. Today he walks free in Scottsdale, AZ and is seen living the high life at various fancy restaurants. If we give him hell, we’re the ones that get kicked out.

Two stories:

My mom was in a religious school for a few years, and her craziest story was sex Ed, which was mandated in the state at the time. The entire class was "take this shoebox home." Literally no other instructions. The shoebox contained a mirror and nothing else. It was 20 years later before she realized what the mirror was for, because she wasn't informed it was a sex Ed class.

ETA: the school was mixed gender, the classes were not. Girls had separate classes from boys. The mirror was for standing over and seeing that you do, indeed, have a vagina, and then gaining absolutely other information

I was homeschooled, but not in a religious way. My mom ordered the books the state told her to order. When we got them they were fine, until we got to the science module and it told us how ancient humans and dinosaurs lived side by side. ... My mom immediately ordered different books.

We are all born hated by god and we have to earn his love.

There were many crazy things, but the one that affected me the most was my RE teacher's insistence that all non-Catholics would go to hell. My best friend's dad, who was an atheist and a very kind person, had died a few days before and it made me really upset. My parents complained to the school about it.

That god loves me despite me being a degenerate homosexual with instincts that are derived from the chief source of evil; Satan.

Hard not to think you were born evil when everyone keeps telling you it is wrong to like other men.

All girls Catholic school (though I am not, and have never been Catholic). We had three nuns on campus, two teachers and a counselor. One of them taught religious studies and that was where we got 9th grade sex ed. This teacher was firm but beloved, a bit of a hippie, also taught a class about spirituality that was separate from religion, said things like “God has no gender” in class but would straight up call God a woman outside of class, exclusively played Joan Baez and Joni Mitchell music… you get the picture.

Anyway it’s become a bit of a legend now, but apparently during sex ed for the girls a couple of grades ahead of mine, one of the students boldly asked, “Sister, how do you know anything about this? Why are we being taught this by a nun?”

The response was, “I wasn’t always a nun. I’ve been around the block a few times.” You can imagine the uproar this caused for a bunch of 9th grade Catholic girls.

To stay away from the class pet

Luckily it wasn't an American school so the crazy went as far as the earth being 6000 years old. Made for an embarrassing trip to the museum when the teacher told the guide that we were brainwashed christian children though.

The theory of general relativity. Honestly, I understand it better now, and it's still pretty crazy.

I don't remember anything crazy. Unless you consider what's in the Bible as crazy. It was a really positive experience for me. I started out in the public system and really didn't like it. I asked my parents to switch me. Kids were an awful lot nicer in the religious school.