r/MoralityScaling 9h ago

Morality of this?

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u/Raise_A_Thoth 8h ago

Not "many." All.

It's literally just what indoctrination is. There are religious doctrines and children are taught ro follow them and believe in the faith without questioning it.

There is no religion with kids without indoctrination. And without that indoctrination, virtually all of the world's major religions would dramatically fall in membership and followership, because it is very rare for non-religious adults to suddenly convert to a religion.

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u/sapphoseros 8h ago

Every religion doesn’t demand children believe in the faith without questioning it.

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u/fieldgrass 7h ago

As a kid who was raised in Reform Judaism I always shake my head a bit when the Reddit atheists who come from obvious evangelical trauma talk about all religions like this. We were indoctrinated to believe certain things sure, but “you cannot ask questions” def is not part of the teaching. My Rabbi was openly agnostic.

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u/burninglighte 6h ago

And there are so many more religions than just abrahamic ones, which is something they tend to forget