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I agree with that, but that's not a core belief of all religions. Even so, it's not hard to imagine a way to teach part of a faith that does have that as a core belief and remove that aspect.
All major world religions with many followers have arbitrary rules and dire spirital, and often physical, consequences for breaking them.
I am not here to argue specifics on religions.
I don't think I could be more clear about why I believe teaching anyone religion as fact is unethical.
You're making a few assumptions that simply aren't globally true, though. 1) That all religious people follow one of the major world religions you're describing, 2) that all practitioners of those religions follow every rule to the letter, 3) that all religion is taught to children in a vacuum without other, reality based, education alongside it
That simply isn't representative of the entirety of religious practice by a longshot. And in doing so, you're ignoring the significance of the cultural aspects of faiths.
Edit: I think the answer would be different if the question was "is it ethical to raise children as orthodox-to-the-letter Catholic Christian" (a few posters have shared some anecdotes that clearly demonstrate the harms with this idea) but it isn't. The question is if it is ethical to raise children with any religious education whatsoever.
You refuse to address the "arbitrary" and "dire consequences" parts of my arguments by pointing at hypothetical religions. I will not respond to that.
To teach someone that they must follow arbitrary rules with dire consequences for failure is unethical.
You can decide what that means for religions.
That just isn't true, I literally agreed with you that it was wrong to teach children in that way 2 replies ago. These faiths aren't hypothetical, I'm just simply not going to get tied down in speaking about the specifics of specific faiths because that's unnecessarily complicated as you don't need to educate someone on every aspect of a religion to pass on the cultural values and aspects of it.
Though I agree we're at an impasse here and neither of us are able to communicate something valuable to the other at the moment. I don't doubt you're an ethical person, especially with the amount of thought and care you've put into this subject, for whatever that's worth.