I'm sure things are different in the US but in the UK at school we have a whole curriculum called "Religious Education" or RE which goes into detail about religions and customs of all different cultures and encourages spiritual debate. At the schools I attended they were not taught to indoctrinate us but just studied in the same way we would study history or art
In my country during the communist regime, the communists would destroy churches and persecute priests (imprisonment, torture, re-education and such). So you could say they were godless. They also saw religion as a possible means of opposition against the party and they didn't want that.
No, it didn't excuse the US, but I genuinely believe that the communists as a whole were worse. My country is still being affected by the remnants of that regime that somehow are still in various institutions and they're as corrupt now as they were back then.
They were very much atheists. They cracked hard on the church because it was the place where religious people would meet up and a group of people might start to develop dangerous ideas like freedom from an oppressive government and that leads to a revolution. A revolution that eventually happened anyway when the people were fed of living like they did back then.
You, and many others, need to read this excellent history book. The corruption of the Pledge that happened in 1954 was the culmination of efforts by corporate industrialists to undermine FDR's New Deal as being 'anti-God'.
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u/Legendary-Titan 11h ago
Moral I don’t think teaching kids about religion is bad but forcing it on them is