All countries around the world have a minimum age to gain the right to vote. My understanding of this rule is that young people generally are not mature enough from a decision making stand-point on crucial topics in politics and electing a candidate into the government. If this be so, then shouldn't we also set a minimum age for people to choose a religious faith to follow? Keeping aside the fact that religion is a fallacy and we'd be better off without it, I think the first step towards that would be to stop indoctrinating children in religious faith. I feel that the governments should prevent children from being brought up in a faith and instead when they grow to a certain age, they can choose to be part of a religious faith or whatever. In the meantime, as Dr. Daniel Dennett says one could teach kids "world religions" as part of the educational curriculum (the fact about the origins and workings of religion). The facts about religion along with a strong science education and the lack of indoctrination would strike a natural death blow to religion in a few of generations.

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