With the passage of time, the ERE started playing a major role in the training of people, because it is considered as a key area of education. From this, it can be seen how the Catholic religion has influenced in school, political and ideological training of individuals throughout history, but also its weakness in power with the arrival in the country of new religious currents, modernity and strengthening science, which fail to arouse critical thinking in their students and get a change in the structure of education in Colombia, hence the concern of carrying out the following research. In order to establish the characteristics that the ERE owns and its impact on academic communities with the opportunity to explore in the city of Ibague four educational institutions where the religion teachers and students from different grades of high school and vocational media; Further to this, the curricula and institutional horizon and colleges were reviewed by atlas ti program analysis tool, was reviewed. Among the data found was established that curricula are consistent with the guidelines established by the MEN and point to institutional horizon of each school, but teachers and students agree with that kind of ERE should be reconsidered and adjusted to the current times.