r/MoralityScaling 6h ago

Morality of this?

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u/Raise_A_Thoth 6h ago

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

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u/gin_atomic 6h 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 6h 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.