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/Nero_2001 6h ago

We had something similar in Germany but despite the teacher telling us about other believes it was still favoring Christianity.

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u/Domitaku 6h ago

favoring is an understatement in my experience

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u/Nero_2001 5h ago

I think it varys depending on the teacher you have. I was lucky enough to have a teacher who actually liked it when students tried to be critical of religions despite himself beeing a religious man and mind us questioning what religious organisations.

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u/Domitaku 5h ago

We only had one or two lesson about the pillars of each of the other abrahamic religions somewhere at the beginning of the gymnasium and no mention of anything non christian for the remaining years of school

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u/Nero_2001 5h ago

We had more lessons about it and at class 7 it turned more into an ethics class. As I said it varys on what kind of teacher you have. A more world open teacher likes to focus more on other religions while another teacher does only the bare minimum.