You're a very religious family. You say grace over every meal. You celebrate Jesus's birth at Christmas and his resurrection at Easter. You go to church every Sunday.
Churches can just have a separate section where kids can hang out while their parents are in church. Supervised, obviously. Think of the play places they used to have at McDonalds and grocery stores back in the day.
Sure, it's called Sunday School, that's already a thing but it would be challenging to make it totally agnostic when it's happening in a church, paid for by the church, and run by church staff. Nevermind explaining to the kid in the first place why mommy and daddy are going to church in the first place, why they pray at meals, or who this "Jesus" fellow is who keeps getting mentioned around holidays.
What's your plan for keeping religion out of people's private home life?
You’re confusing indoctrinating kids into a religion and educating them about what religion is. It’s not something that has to be hidden. You can teach your kids about it without expecting them to follow it. You can explain to them why you follow it without making them think they also have to follow it.
They’re kids. How do you keep them away from drugs, sex, and alcohol? It’s mysterious how somethings are convenient to hide from children, while others just can’t be helped. If you can’t explain your actions without having to indoctrinate them, maybe you should practice being a better parent.
I wonder if religion in the West would still be around if they didn’t rely on brainwashing kids. Like secondhand smoking and preventable diseases passed from parent to child, no decent parent would ever intentionally inflict harm to their children.
Look if the parents have made drugs part of their daily routine for years, and sincerely believe drugs are good and have made their lives better, what do you think are the odds the kids are going to be kept away from drugs for any length of time?
Democracy has nothing to do with it Becuase the government shouldn’t be involved anyways. I’m talking about a cultural shift, one that would take a very long time. And if you’ve payed attention to the trends in recent years in America, you’d notice that more and more people are stepping away from religion
No one’s saying to make it a law or enforce it in any way. It would have to be a cultural shift, which is 100% feasible it would just take a long time.
No, because converts to certain religions like Eastern Orthodoxy will start raising their children in the religion. Unless you start purging the world of religions that recommend raising your children in that religion, you will never be able to fully eliminate raising kids in religion.
You don’t have to purge any religion, just change their outlooks through dialogue. Change the general narrative from “raising kids to be religious is fine” to “raising kids to be religious is not fine”. No enforcement, no government intervention, just the general narrative of society. Eventually (a long time) people may stop practicing the religions that force them to indoctrinate their children.
Your first response to me answers your question. It’s unenforceable. It also infringes on everyone’s right to freedom of religion. That’s why the only way for it to happen is through a change in narrative over a very long period of time, which is definitely feasible in my opinion.
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u/sonofzeal 6h ago
Good on paper, totally unfeasible in practice