Responding to Education Minister Nikos Filis’s statements on the need to reform religious studies if they are to remain in the school curriculum, the Panhellenic Association of Theologians released a statement saying that religious should not be used for political reasons. The statement underlines that the matter of content in religious studies is a serious one, as it pertains to the development of a religious and spiritual identity for students the Minister used contradictory statements and used political criteria with ideological fanaticism. They wonder if he is threatening to override the Greek constitution, which states the Greek Orthodox religion is the dominant one on the country.