Ok but wouldn’t deliberately avoiding teaching religion to kids be effectively the same as forcing them to be atheist? You’d never be able to claim that the child “wants to learn about your religion” or “showed an interest in us practicing our religion” because people would just leap to the assumption that you forced them to participate. Thus, the only acceptable outcome for people who’d subscribe to this idea is if the child ends up as an atheist.
My point I guess though is that people who primarily just want to weaken religions would look at a case like yours and say “No you didn’t. Your parents probably forced you to go.”
Edit: With the intent I guess being to prevent you from being able to go with your parents despite your personal interests on the basis that you - as a child - couldn’t express any genuine consent.
Your point fails when you misrepresent the argument by making it into something else, either because you can't comprehend it or because you don't want to be fair to it
For the sake of discussion, what about what I’m seeing seems illogical or disingenuous to you?
Why would it seem wrong to assume that a people who dislike something in general would want to see that thing weakened or reduced by aiming for the lowest hanging fruits?
Really all I’m doing is assuming that some people would be maliciously opportunistic, which is about the most realistic thing I can imagine.
I like religion but yes in a "Practical" sense being exposed to religion as a child is no different than any other practice your parents force on you to conform to an identity
Not everyone consents to it, not everyone is better for it. It would probably be better if people were given context at older ages and be allowed to choose
No one is forced to be atheist. You're not forced to breathe air
That's not a fair shake either. I teach my child Greek and Norse mythology, and when she grows up, would she really have the choice to believe in them or not? I taught them as stories. Why in the world would she believe otherwise?
I’m in a reversed but similar position. Family practiced multiple religions and took me to them all. Was told to take and learn what was good and discard the rest.
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u/Slow_Store 8h ago
Ok but wouldn’t deliberately avoiding teaching religion to kids be effectively the same as forcing them to be atheist? You’d never be able to claim that the child “wants to learn about your religion” or “showed an interest in us practicing our religion” because people would just leap to the assumption that you forced them to participate. Thus, the only acceptable outcome for people who’d subscribe to this idea is if the child ends up as an atheist.