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This is a neat idea but unfortunately the name and advertisement 100% read to me like this is Christian proselytizing. I wouldn't expect secular education to be remotely part of this from just this material, and I wouldn't even check out the website to confirm.
Considering this group is in Amsterdam, it may be that there isn't as much of a religious backdrop to make people think of it like that. Admittedly I don't know the demographics of the city, much less the country, enough to know whether that's the case or not.
Very few Western countries are as fervently religious as the US. Amsterdam is 13% Christian and 62% no religion, so safe to say religion isn't the first thing that would come to people's minds there.
Yet, the Netherlands has its very own bible belt! There are quite a lot of conservative christians in the Netherlands, they just don't live in Amsterdam. I don't disagree though that religion is less at the forefront of public conversation than in the US.
Yeah, I'll confess, this may be very largely an American perspective. I am in one of the least religious metro areas of the US, and it's still 50%+ Christian. For anyone who has been near Christian conversion propaganda, there are a lot of red flags in that ad, but I also agree with some comments below that it doesn't seem like a great pitch even in absence of that context. I'd want to know more about what is being taught and why before I would be interested.