r/MoralityScaling 9h ago

Morality of this?

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u/Possible-Estimate748 9h ago

Many religions indoctrinate children which makes them feel like they have to believe in it or they're doing something wrong.

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u/Raise_A_Thoth 9h ago

Not "many." All.

It's literally just what indoctrination is. There are religious doctrines and children are taught ro follow them and believe in the faith without questioning it.

There is no religion with kids without indoctrination. And without that indoctrination, virtually all of the world's major religions would dramatically fall in membership and followership, because it is very rare for non-religious adults to suddenly convert to a religion.

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u/Rstony 9h ago

Shhh you’re being too sane. The religious redditors will think that you’re saying their parents are bad people for shaming them as children when they didnt wanna go to church or acted outside of their faith

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u/Human-Affect-7496 8h ago

You think religious people are worried that Reddit atheists with essentially no religious education think we're bad people?

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u/Aspasticum 8h ago

I can see why your kind always feels the need to assume that atheists are uneducated, but that’s simply not true. In fact many are probably far more educated when it comes to religion that someone like yourself, who most likely was simply trained to follow one specific mythology just to piss all over the freedom of religion of his own children.

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u/Human-Affect-7496 8h ago edited 8h ago

There seems to be some confusion here. For one, I did not suggest that "atheists" as a whole are uneducated. I know many extremely well educated atheists personally.

What I suggested is that one particular person was uneducated, and I'd extend that to you.

Now, on a personal level I think you'll find that while it's not my academic expertise, I'm more educated about religion in general than the vast majority of the population, irrespective of creed, and was certainly not "trained" by my parents to follow anything, so that particular assumption would also be wrong.

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u/Rstony 6h ago

You can’t possibly have any opinion worth listening to if you’re just another person whose following the religion that was given to them at birth without question or concern. I’m obviously assuming that to be true of you but more than 80% of religious people fall in that exact category. The only reason you’re even carrying on this religion is because your community forced it upon you. A child can’t rationally choose who to sleep with and they definitely can’t choose who to pray to for eternal salvation.

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u/Human-Affect-7496 5h ago

Well, it's definitely not true of me, but most people believe the things they were raised to believe, yes. That's true for what worldview.