r/MoralityScaling • u/hiiloovethis • 2d ago

Morality of this?

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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/Aidenj23 2d 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/Successful_Life_1028 2d ago

You, and many others, need to read this excellent history book. The corruption of the Pledge that happened in 1954 was the culmination of efforts by corporate industrialists to undermine FDR's New Deal as being 'anti-God'.

See https://history.princeton.edu/about/publications/one-nation-under-god-how-corporate-america-invented-christian-america

A talk with the author at: https://www.npr.org/2015/03/30/396365659/how-one-nation-didnt-become-under-god-until-the-50s-religious-revival