Is teaching your child about your religion mental abuse?

[Kadagar_AV]

Too much censorship on these boards.

[rvg]

rvg,

Is that not indoctrination?

Jesus is not something positive for everyone in the world, you know...

Indoctrination? Hardly. It's merely a parent sharing his worldview with his child. As far as Jesus not being positive for everybody, if you want to stick to that as your guiding principle as far as what should be taught to children, then there will be pretty much nothing left to teach, since just about any idea will findan opponent somewhere in the world.

[Fragony]

imho yes but I am an atheist which kinda can be a religion of it's own when it comes to evangelistic behaviour, a religious person is usually far more respectful of atheism then an atheist if of religion and I keep that in mind, I think teaching someone about their religion is a better thing then teaching them to destroy it wherever they happen to find it.

[naut]

imho yes but I am an atheist which kinda can be a religion of it's own when it comes to evangelistic behaviour, a religious person is usually far more respectful of atheism then an atheist if of religion and I keep that in mind, I think teaching someone about their religion is a better thing then teaching them to destroy it wherever they happen to find it.

[LittleGrizzly]

Mental abuse... no, well the really crazy fanatical ones probably cross over into that terroritory but i would put everything else down to indoctrination of young impressionable minds...

I hate to invoke godwin here and i am not linking hitler to any religion (read the previous sentence over a few times if you start to get angy..)

When hitler set up his youth camps he had the majority of the german youth eating out of his hand, so if a stranger with a bit of power can brainwash children so easily, then two parents simply telling bible storys, taking thier kids to church and just speaking of thier own personal faith could permentantly convince the child of his religion with no critical/abstract or spiritual thought of his own...

Don now you are reading well too much into it... persucution complex possibly ? i now how badly you majority's are treated in america

I think kag was simply asking is indoctrinating your kid to believe as you do a form of mental abuse, i saw no calls for children of the religious to be taken away, kag is a child of someone religious himself (did he say in this topic ?)

[Don Corleone]

I see. So in the UK, Sweden and Austria, it's common practice to leave children in abusive households? I must have missed that factoid... was probably busy reading Goebbels to Jillian.

By the way, I love your pre-defense In the same spirit, I don't mean to call anybody here an idiot, but well, you know, idiots invoke Godwin's law to tarnish every viewpoint that disagrees with their limited worldview.