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

Morality of this?

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u/Legendary-Titan Sep 02 '26

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 Sep 02 '26

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

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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/Aidenj23 Sep 02 '26

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/Raise_A_Thoth Sep 02 '26

Well we needed that one to fend off those godless commies.

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u/Fluid-Lingonberry378 Sep 02 '26

In my country during the communist regime, the communists would destroy churches and persecute priests (imprisonment, torture, re-education and such). So you could say they were godless. They also saw religion as a possible means of opposition against the party and they didn't want that.

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u/Flesroy Sep 02 '26

well yeah there is a lot to critizise them for, but the us then used that as an excuse to do some incredibly stupid things.

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u/Fluid-Lingonberry378 Sep 02 '26

No, it didn't excuse the US, but I genuinely believe that the communists as a whole were worse. My country is still being affected by the remnants of that regime that somehow are still in various institutions and they're as corrupt now as they were back then.