Losing Our Religion

Hear that sound? It was the noise of Rosary Beads being dropped in shock all over the UK as the Commission on Religious Education have said that Religious Education in schools needs a major overhaul and should be renamed Religion and Worldviews and include the study of Atheism.
The conclusion is based on less pupils taking religious studies at A-level and new data suggesting that more than half the population has no religious beliefs whatsoever.
The recommendations have been presented to the Department for Education and includes an increase in government funding to train new and existing teachers in Atheism but i could save them a few quid over the course of a 39 week school year so the first lesson in Week 1 is: 'Listen up kids, there is no God, the whole religion thing is a massive myth so you can now spend the next 38 weeks learning something which is actually useful to you'.
As usual a few of the more excitable religious groups are attempting to putting a holy spanner into the works, the Catholics complaining that: 'The quality of religious education is not improved by teaching less religion' which is sort of the point, it shouldn't be improved, unless they have some proof to back up their guy, it should be presented as a 'belief' as in you can believe in this, or that, up to you, you choose.
The Board of British Jews said the report was 'flawed' and would 'dilute religious education through the inclusion of all worldviews in an already tight teaching timetable' so their concern is the extra lessons and not that people would realise just how crazy their views are, that's nice of them.
A report from Germany who scrapped religious education in the 1970's found that abolishment significantly reduced religiousness but there was no impact on moral or ethical views.
Religion has hugely shaped our societies for millennia and not for the better as any look at a history book or a glance at what is going on in the name of religion on the news so its decline should be welcomed.