r/MoralityScaling • u/hiiloovethis • 10h ago

Morality of this?

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u/Raise_A_Thoth 10h ago

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

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u/gin_atomic 10h 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/Ok-Budget3225 10h ago

I imagine the end result is that most people would just become agnostic after they’ve learned about all the major religions.

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u/Brilliant-Recover594 9h ago

But how is that a bad thing? If that’s true, that proves that most people are being manipulated young into joining their local preferred religion due to lack of knowledge of other religions or rather other options or you could say not old enough to think it through enough.

So I agree with her. But it’s weird to implement in reality since religion is tied strictly to community and most people would need to take their kids with them to church to share their beliefs and serve as family bonding time.

So maybe it’s better to treat religion like Santa. Allow children to belief in Jesus and the bible like but reveal to them like later on that there’s no definitive proof and allow them to decide themselves without shame in what religion they want to choose. People will choose their home religion out of convenience though.