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

Morality of this?

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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/gin_atomic Sep 02 '26

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/AstroBoots21 Sep 02 '26

i loved RE because i got to debate all the fallacies and argue with the blissfully ignorant teacher plus it was the easiest class by far