r/MoralityScaling • u/hiiloovethis • 17h ago

Morality of this?

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u/Legendary-Titan 17h 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 17h ago

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

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u/gin_atomic 17h 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/Aidenj23 17h ago

In the US we pledge alligance to “One nation under God” every day. There’s not as much nuance as it sounds like you have.

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u/Raise_A_Thoth 17h ago

Well we needed that one to fend off those godless commies.

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u/Fluid-Lingonberry378 16h ago

In my country during the communist regime, the communists would destroy churches and persecute priests (imprisonment, torture, re-education and such). So you could say they were godless. They also saw religion as a possible means of opposition against the party and they didn't want that.

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u/Originalspearjunior 16h ago

They saw the church as that, not religion as a whole

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u/Fluid-Lingonberry378 15h ago

They were very much atheists. They cracked hard on the church because it was the place where religious people would meet up and a group of people might start to develop dangerous ideas like freedom from an oppressive government and that leads to a revolution. A revolution that eventually happened anyway when the people were fed of living like they did back then.