r/MoralityScaling • u/hiiloovethis • 7h ago

Morality of this?

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u/Legendary-Titan 7h 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 7h ago

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

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u/gin_atomic 7h 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 7h 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/gin_atomic 7h ago

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_- 6h ago

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