Is The Teaching Of Religion To Children Child Abuse?

[Quixote1818]

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[DonCoquixote]

1. depends on the religion

The aspects of religion that teach humility and morals, not bad, but any belief that says "because we believe X, other people are inferior", is rubbish. All belief systems have that side, Judaism, Islam, Xtianity, and yes, even the "we are not a religion" aspects of belief like Marxism.

[burnsei sensei]

3. Faiths of the chosen, the elect, the holders of the

final revelation . . .
though they're not all alike, they all have this feature.

[burnsei sensei]

2. I think he's right. I see his point.

I am a religious person, but I became so when I was an adult and on my own terms.
While he points out Christianity as imposed upon children, other religions are so strikingly similar that it is easy and reasonable to generalize his thesis to others.
Religion creates a brutal God, a brutal world, and demands cries for mercy to parents or anyone who will listen.
Much of scripture is violent, sexually explicit and inappropriate for children.
Dogma is technically worded, hard to understand, and unfit for children.
Religion takes much, demands much, from the young and gives very little.
I also think that people should believe on their own terms, not on the terms of the community, nation or family.
Only then is the profession of any faith sincere.

[Quixote1818]

5. I am spiritual as well. I have no problem with Religion in general as long

as people discover it when they have reached a mature age and have adult reason. As a Unitarian I think there are many paths up the mountain.

[burnsei sensei]

7. Me too. And to leave religion until adulthood also

brings with it personal responsibility in the the conduct and exercise of religion.
It's just the kind of rational check religion needs.

[stray cat]

4. Teaching politics even progressive views is abusive if it teaches hate or bigotry

[burnsei sensei]

8. I'd put that off until late adolescence also.

When I was a teenager, the last thing I was interested in was politics.
The ones who are are few and far between.

[Quixote1818]

6. "Kids are the best, Apu. You can teach them to hate the things you hate." Homer Simpson

nt

[Althaia]

9. yes, it is. It limits and poisons the mind.

More on the subject-

Richard Dawkins on Faith Schools in Britain
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulX8nZjeCXE

Magical thinking is NOT the default setting of the human mind, it is taught by religion:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dg84mFeIsLQ

[Quixote1818]

11. I think it also prevents a child from becoming who they were meant to be. That is

the saddest part.

[lumpy]

10. Man hits nail on head. Raised in a Christian church tempered

with my Mother's reason perhaps saved me with the ability to excersize my critical thinking. Which I did. I explored my own spiritual path along the way and am coming to the end of the road. I don't have the answer, but I have faith that there is something beyond this life. Thanks Mom for saving me from a lifetime of spiritual confusion.
Anyway, concerning my children, I decided that they must tread their own paths with guidance from those that try to adher to the better qualities to be found in human conscience.

[Quixote1818]

12. Good for you! nt