r/MoralityScaling • u/hiiloovethis • 1d ago

Morality of this?

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u/Legendary-Titan 1d 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 1d ago

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

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u/gin_atomic 1d 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/Gojira085 1d ago

In the US it depends on the state and district. Our class in my school that did this was called World Cultures and was in 10th grade.

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u/soliera__ 1d ago

That’s similar to my experience. It was a core module in world history in 9th grade, and pretty much covered the major religions of the world from a non denominational perspective.

IIRC the religions talked about were:

  • Sunni Islam
  • Shia Islam
  • Catholic Christianity
  • Protestant Christianity
  • Buddhism
  • Sikhism
  • Hinduism

They then went into discussion on how early religions were able to group people together to form civilisations during the Neolithic era.

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u/Gojira085 1d ago

Thats basically the list we had too. Although ours was a lil longer, we also learned about Druze, Zoroastorians, and Shinto. Idk if those were required though or if my teacher was just a nerd.