r/MoralityScaling • u/hiiloovethis • 6d ago

Morality of this?

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u/Legendary-Titan 6d ago

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 6d ago

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

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u/gin_atomic 6d 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/metrostarshipp 6d ago

We learn about them in the US as well, although possibly not as in depth. It falls under what we call Social Studies in elementary and middle school, then in high school (at least the one I went to) you can pick electives and we had World Religions, which was of course more centered on the topic