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I'm not speaking from experience here, but that doesn't stop me from having opinions.
I don't believe this is an emergency. Are the kid's lives being affected negatively by the religion? What do they think of what they're being taught?
Actually, this could be an emergency if they're being taught about Hell. Are they? Is it haunting them?
Their minds aren't a battlefield between you and religious school-- what they believe is, well not exactly their choice because people aren't very good at choosing, but more their choice than yours.
I recommend teaching them a little thoughtful cynicism, with advertisements as the subject matter.
I haven't seen any evidence that they're being bothered by anything.
Mostly, I just want to make it clear that, unlike a lot of other things they're learning in school, there are a lot of people who have good reasons to think the stories aren't true - to make it clear that there's a difference between "Moses led the Jews out of Egypt" and "George Washington was the first President of the United States."