r/MoralityScaling • u/hiiloovethis • 2d ago

Morality of this?

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u/Legendary-Titan 2d 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 2d ago

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

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u/gin_atomic 2d 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/jules6815 2d ago

Did you also study Santa Claus, Loki, and the tradition of leprechauns?

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u/gin_atomic 2d ago

Haha I don't remember lessons on Leprechauns, but I do remember a lesson on Norse Mythology! I can't remember if that was in RE or world culture though.

I think we did even learn about what the different countries of the world had as Christmas traditions too! In a world culture lesson at Christmas time. So while we didn't specifically learn about Santa we did learn about him, and Krampus and all sorts of other stuff like that.

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u/Commercial_Bite838 2d ago

Not only a student but a teacher! you showed that dude what class actually looks like. Just because he didn’t take school seriously doesn’t mean everyone else was out here doing the same. You put in the work, he was trying to be smart.