[zwieback]

Growing up in Germany we had "Religion" as a first-class citizen in the curriculum, all the way through 13th grade. Where I grew up we were almost exactly 50% Protestant, 50% Catholic so we split up in those groups for our classes. You (your parents) could declare yourself non-religious and skip those classes but few did, even though almost nobody I knew said they believed in god. The Religion classes, which were part history, part ethics classes were actually one of my favorite subjects even though I can't remember ever in my life believing in a supreme being of any sort.