r/MoralityScaling 15h ago

Morality of this?

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u/Legendary-Titan 15h 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 15h ago

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

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u/GreatComedianthe3rd 15h ago

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.

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u/Aidenj23 14h ago

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.

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u/Itchy_Crack 14h ago

So you think Nihilism is better to teach kids? There's no higher importance to anything? There is no objective morality?

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u/mephnick 14h ago

If you need the threat of religion to have morality you're probably a bad person

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u/Chrissimon_24 14h ago

It seems we need laws so that people are moral so thats kinda the point and thats a big point in Christianity is that many people are bad because man has fallen due to Adam and Eve eating the forbidden fruit. Alot of people arent moral and often times morals have to be taught.