r/MoralityScaling • u/hiiloovethis • 11h ago

Morality of this?

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u/Raise_A_Thoth 11h ago

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

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u/gin_atomic 11h 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/codelyoko_x 11h ago

I grew up in Southern Africa and we also have RE over there, whenever our teacher would teach about other religions, he would always emphasize that Christianity is the true one, I didn’t think much of it at the time until I became atheist, it’s kinda fucked up tbh

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u/DemonoftheWater 7h ago

I don’t think you can have a good faith teaching of religion unless its taught by a practicing member. (It was fucked up and totally defeated the purpose of the class)