(May 25, 2022 at 2:29 pm)emjay Wrote:(May 25, 2022 at 12:31 pm)Orbit Wrote: Maybe my profession biases me, but I think religion should be taught as an academic subject - as an examination of culture, society, politics, power, and history, and not as a source of "belief" or "truth", starting at about junior high school.
Yeah, I have no problem with it being taught as an academic subject. We had that... Religious Education (RE)... in Middle School I think (ie in the UK about 9-13 age) and it was an interesting subject as far as I recall...but that sort of comparative study of religions pretty much exemplifies the sort of dispassionate objectivity, that as I said, I hope people would try and be mindful of in private... unlikely I know... because there's no realistic expectation that parents won't passionately pass on their beliefs to their children, intentionally or otherwise, but it's still a nice ideal.
Children will be introduced to religion if they have any contact with society.
They will also be introduced to politics, economics, sexuality, violence, and other things that kids become aware of.
If parents want to keep their children un-introduced to religion until the child is in the 9-13 age range, and then introduce the concept in a way that the parents can control, they will have to keep the child completely isolated from society and carefully pre-screen all media.
