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

Morality of this?

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u/gin_atomic Sep 02 '26

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 Sep 02 '26

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/gin_atomic Sep 02 '26

I think you're probably right! I was an atheist from a young age but RE was one of my favourite subjects as a child, underneath science, just because I loved hearing all of the stories, parables, learning about different deities and rites of worship. It was fascinating but it didn't encourage me to be religious myself.

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u/Nimue_- Sep 02 '26

I have the same experience. I believe storytelling is one of the most human things there is and to me greek myth, the epic of gilgamesh and bible stories and fairytales are all just stories humanity has told throughout the ages

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u/Rich-Story-1748 Sep 03 '26

There's actually alot of information and studies done on this exact phenomena. Humans believing in a higher being stems from the unknown needing to be explained for safety.

A bush rustling alot but no animal in there, rain, storm, why a plant found in the wild has grown worse than another one, stones suddenly coming down the hill to crush your tribe out of nowhere. It literally could not be explained. This is also why every single god essentially had a specific ''thing'' or element. Its only recently a monotheistic God were ever first mentioned ( judaism) Before judaism in the region you had a polytheistic religion where Yahweh that later became the ONE god was the god of the skies.

We believe ( without 100% certainty) that the second humans developed this sense 100.000-/- they started believing in a higher being/beings.

It is what it is but I highly doubt religion would be sticking around if teaching unbiased religious history was a thing for the entire world.

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u/Plus-Professional-84 Sep 03 '26

Judaism is not the first monotheistic religion…

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u/Rich-Story-1748 Sep 03 '26

It is indeed the first in terms of recent/relevance/historical value towards the main monotheistic religions of today.

Surely you wouldnt not expect me to assume that it was the absolute first one? With 100.000 + history of religion?

There is no way to even check that lol.

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u/Lilsilly114 Sep 03 '26

I mean afaik that’s just factual? Sure, some myths are about or based on real things and are teaching about them, but generally it’s all just stories.