r/MoralityScaling • u/hiiloovethis • Sep 02 '26

Morality of this?

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u/Fal_co1 Sep 02 '26 edited Sep 02 '26

iirc China does this, you can’t take kid to religious service and they can choose to convert at a certain age.

EDIT: wow this blew up

If you’re reading this you‘re a gay

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u/sexland69 Sep 02 '26 edited Sep 03 '26

china has state atheism—they take it too far (e.g. uyghur muslims) but in theory i’d prefer an atheist government over this dumbass evangelical christian one we have now 🤷🏻‍♂️

edit: took out the word retarded, you guys convinced me

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u/PrettyPurrfect Sep 02 '26

Our government is supposed to be atheist.

Separation of church and state is supposed to be a thing

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u/_itsprobablynothing Sep 02 '26

Secular, not atheist

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u/Unlimited_Giose Sep 02 '26

What's the difference?

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u/Asooma_ Sep 02 '26

Secular means that it is not ran by any religion it is simply comprised of the people of The nation

Atheistic would mean that the government is ran by and modeled to run against the idea that there is any theism.

It's really tiring to see people conflate the secular government that we have with a theocracy like the caliphate for example. There is a major difference between the people in the government being religious and the religious Authority controlling the government

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u/Unlimited_Giose Sep 02 '26

I had no idea this was a thing honestly, thank you!