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I think that's a great idea except that many of these religions have debates within themselves regarding what they're all about. Are you going to teach Reformed, Conservative, Modern-Orthodox, Mitnagdish, Chassidish, etc Judaism? ... it's very easy to miss a major point that looks like a minor one.
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You're not really giving all the info about any religion in Ireland, not even the one your worshiping. The idea is that, just like French or Geography, you learn a little about the great-big subject that is Religion and its many forms and sections. You don't learn every little thing about one small area of one small area of it.
With catholisim vs. protestism, we learned a few differences {like "what the priest wears" and "what the church looks like"} but this was because in Ireland, these two faiths are historical enemies for no valid reason (no valid reason IMO, at least). We didn't learn about every little branch of Christianity, but I think there was a list of some of them.
It's not about knowing every religion though. It's about allowing people to know there are other religions, and getting them to understand a little more about the bigger ones.
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There are a finite number of actual religions, but an infinite number of possibles. Also, where is 3.6 billion from?
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3.6 billion: One for almost every person on the planet... give or take a billion at this stage.
With an infinite number of possibilities the odds of what is taken as Existance being real is so damn small as to be insignificant; and nothing more than flawed human mind tricks. This doesn't stop things from existing. There are always infinite possibilities; physics says so, quantum mechanics says so, Steven Hawking said "infinite parallel universes" at one point and meant it. Mathamatical existince doesn't work that well, since the more you think about the odds of Life on earth or that we really exist, the more you realise you can only begin to question it on the assumption you exist to question it. (Okay, I haven't done enough pholosophy to really cope in this area. Socraties may as well have been a bear to me; I know nothing about him.)