Can it be considered morally wrong, to raise your child to be religous?

There are degrees of "wrong". There's stabbing orphans and there's leaving a waitress a smaller tip than custom would dictate she receive. There's genocide and there's forgetting to thank Aunt Carol for the birthday card she sent. I do think it's unhealthy to indoctrinate children into a religion, relative to other ways of raising children. It's not ideal, let's say. However, if the religion is largely humane and has some genuine benefits, communal, social, moral, otherwise, and if the indoctrination is not total, ie, if the religion leaves at least some room for questioning and independent thought, then to me it falls in the category of "yeah, not ideal, but I'm not gonna lose any sleep over it". It helps to keep in mind that religiosity is largely a personality trait. Those who have it will find religion whether or not they were raised with it, and whether or not the "faith" they come to adopt looks like a traditional religion. It might be political or ideological in nature, or whatever. And those who lack the religiosity "gene" will lose religion whether or not they were raised with it, and whether or not they continue going through the motions to keep up appearance. So, point is, how we're raised is not the end of the story when it comes to our relationship to religion. Far from it.

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