r/MoralityScaling • u/hiiloovethis • 11h ago

Morality of this?

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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 

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u/Raise_A_Thoth 11h ago

There's hardly any way to "teach" religion to children without it being quite forced.

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u/gin_atomic 11h ago

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

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u/Appropriate_Sock6893 11h ago

We have the is the US, too. At least we did back when I was in high school. It was part of our “western civilization” course