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Originally Posted by Locke
Yeah. I don't buy that. I went through the Catholic system and the last thing they did was indoctrinate me or anyone that I knew.
I think one of the best things they did was have a class on Religious education. Learning about other Religions helps one to understand Foreign cultures.
If it was an 'indoctrination scheme' then it was wildly incompetent and ineffective.
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I think the indoctrination scheme is incompetent, but it's there. Religious education for me in high school was so dismissive and condescending of other religions which threw on a lightbulb for me of how wildly hypocritical it was that our "blind faith" is better than their "blind faith" that I bailed on religion altogether.
IMO the most important part of understanding other cultures and religions is to actually spend time with those people. Catholic school made it so I didn't grow up with any Muslims, Sikhs, Hindus etc. It wasn't until university that I really had an opportunity to get to know people from those walks of life. I'd rather kids build relationships and build empathy for other faiths and cultures from an early age.