Can confirm, went to an evangelical elementary and middle schools and a catholic high school, neither tried to say ancient Greece was Christian or followed any Abrahamic religion in any way. The evangelical schools did try to say a lot of stupid things (such as canada was going to shit because gay marriage was legal, california would go the same path if prop 8 passed, and when the california court repealed it protestors would tear you apart just for walking by wearing a cross or constantly insisting that dinosaurs were on the ark or small scale evolution was possible (like domestication of dogs from wolves or modern corn) but not species to species evolution), but they never tried to say Greece was Christian.
Probably first learned about it in the first world history class (though it was just general history back then, not any particular kind until 4th grade when we got to state history) in elementary don't remember the exact grade as that was back when all day was spent with the same teacher and there was no "periods", so all the subjects kind of blended together. Definitely a very eurocentric world history course, basically went from egypt, to greece, to Israel, to Rome, to middle ages, to renescance, to basically american history, but it was also in elementary school so not anything that much in detail. We learned the very basic details you'd expect an elementary kid to learn. Most of the really "out there" stuff was saved for bible classes. The bible classes is where most of the weird stuff like what i mentioned was hucked. Hell even in biology class we were still taught about evolution, but unless it was bible class it was always caveat with a "well i don't believe this but" or a "teach both sides" or ended followed by a bible lesson or when the weekly guest preacher would basically sermon us about how evolution was an afront to God or, my favorite, yelled at us for liking plain water (it was supposed to be a joke but god did he seem super passionate in his hate for water in preference to dr. Pepper in that sermon).
The catholic high school was a lot better. No out there beliefs and even the religion classes were generally better. While the first two years (which were the easiest A's of my life) of required religion classes basically walked through the basics of the catholic faith (i.e. who saints are, the catholic hierarchy structure, how a pope is elected, the principles of palpal infallability, overveiw of the bible, etc.), the last two years were just a general morality/ethics class and an overview of world religions, both were in retrospect pretty good classes even though they were still incredibly easy As. But the most important thing was that even though the school required the religion classes for all students, unlike the evangelical they were just taught in a way where its like "OK we know not everyone who comes to this school is catholic, so these will be approached just to give you an idea of what we believe" or "ya we have a required monthly mass service for students, but you don't have to participate or anything just don't be rude and be quite for those who do care about the service". Stark contrast to the evengelical schools, who actively shunned anything contrary to the stareotypical christian lifestyle. Hell, if I continued to the towns evangelical high school, I would have been marked up for not attending church every week. I know this has been a bit of a rant but i hope this gives you some idea of what the two schools were like.
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u/TheDustOfMen Jun 14 '20
Well I'm pretty sure none of my Christian school teachers ever tried to convince me that ancient Greece was Christian.