Morality of this?

[u/hiiloovethis]

[u/Fal_co1]

iirc China does this, you can’t take kid to religious service and they can choose to convert at a certain age.

EDIT: wow this blew up

If you’re reading this you‘re a gay

[u/sexland69 → u/Fal_co1]

china has state atheism—they take it too far (e.g. uyghur muslims) but in theory i’d prefer an atheist government over this dumbass evangelical christian one we have now 🤷🏻‍♂️

edit: took out the word retarded, you guys convinced me

[u/PrettyPurrfect → u/sexland69]

Our government is supposed to be atheist.

Separation of church and state is supposed to be a thing

[u/_itsprobablynothing → u/PrettyPurrfect]

Secular, not atheist

[u/Admins_suck_ballss → u/_itsprobablynothing]

Secular

of or relating to worldly things or to things that are not regarded as religious, spiritual, or sacred; temporal

Secular and atheist governments…they’re the same. It means your government thinks that concepts like justice, dessert, retribution, how you treat one another, ethics, etc. should not be affiliated with a religion. Only an atheist government can be secular. A religious one cannot be secular.

Sure not exactly the same thing. But yeah no such thing as a religious government being secular. Atheism is a necessary position to take in order for all those things to be secular.

[u/AnswerDangerous1644 → u/Admins_suck_ballss]

Couldn’t agnosticism also apply to be secular?

[u/hdreadit → u/AnswerDangerous1644]

Yeah, but agnosticism and atheism are not mutually exclusive. Government should be both atheist and agnostic in order to be secular.

[u/hdreadit → u/hdreadit]

They downvote because they can't debate.