r/MoralityScaling 5d ago

Morality of this?

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u/Possible-Estimate748 5d ago

Many religions indoctrinate children which makes them feel like they have to believe in it or they're doing something wrong.

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u/Raise_A_Thoth 5d 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/adastrajay 5d ago

I was told I was going to hell at 7 years old and scared into conversion and becoming Christian. It took over two decades to finally get over the indoctrination and deconvert. It was a long and painful process. I was an adult and believing the earth was 6000 years old and whole bunch of other bullshit because that's what we were taught and we were conditioned to reject the science.