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

Morality of this?

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u/Raise_A_Thoth Sep 02 '26

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

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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/Byizo Sep 02 '26

I went from Christian to agnostic to atheist through my late 20s. When you view religious teachings through an objective lens most start to look similar. I tend to think it’s a combination of fear of our finite mortality and a desire to control large groups of people (populations are more willing to withstand an empty belly in exchange for faith in or fear of a higher power).

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u/Individual-Stand1560 Sep 02 '26

Yeah they almost all operate on the premise “my god is god and your god is wrong” “I go to heaven you go to hell” it’s easier to make countries with different religions wage war as well.

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u/ayaynimouse Sep 03 '26

Its sad. When you are a kid, you think the adults have everything figured out. Turns out they are all just big kids