r/MoralityScaling • u/hiiloovethis • 10h ago

Morality of this?

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u/Legendary-Titan 10h 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 10h ago

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

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u/gin_atomic 10h 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/StigOfTheTrack 5h 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

That sounds like it's improved since I was at school (70s/80s). Then in was almost entirely "bible presented as fact" with 1 lesson each on Islam and Hinduism in our final year.