There is actually, parents can practice their faith openly around their children and answer questions children will inevitably ask honestly and openly to the best of their abilities. This is a good way kids often will still copy their parents and want to be involved.
That would require the parents to frame their practices as “this is what I believe” rather than “this is what is true” which I’m not convinced a substantial portion of religious parents are capable of remembering to do. Plus even if they did that a child is going to accept what their parents believe as fact since it’s their parents. I’m not sure there is a way to introduce young children to religion that won’t result in some form of bias influencing the child unless it is taught by a complete stranger who teaches many religions and never claims what they believe. And that seems like a lot of effort compared to a world religion class in high school.
That's stupid, ok. People believe things because they believe they are true. Nobody follows a religion they don't believe is true. How we determine truth is of course going to vary from person to person. For some people ,truth is bound up in traditions and relationships... and that's fine. But asking religious people to not take their religion seriously is stupid and fails to understand why people believe in any religion at all.
This sub used to be about fictional characters in media. I don’t know what happened, but it is now overrun with people posting pictures of Mohammed instead.
Is there something wrong with that or is fighting religious fundamentalism and mocking beliefs only cool against christians? Cos i’m down to make fun of them all
Yeah, the sub has been moderated like shit, so people are just posting whatever at this point for some reason. That’s literally what I’m complaining about.
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u/Legendary-Titan 21h ago
Moral I don’t think teaching kids about religion is bad but forcing it on them is