Is teaching your child about your religion mental abuse?

[CountArach]

Mental abuse? No, that would be demening a label for something very serious.

Indoctrination? Yes, but this can be said of just about everything a parent tells their children, starting with political views, then moral views, then a general worldview, etc, etc.

I was born into a family that was half Jewish, half Baptist and I was raised a non-practising Baptist. I don't begrudge my parents one bit for raising me that way - they were doing what they thought was right and through an education that encouraged individual thought I came ot my own conclusion that God does not exist. I only recently told my Father, and he was fine with it and commented "I feel I gave you a good moral basis to make your own decisions."

So I don't know where I am going with this, but something to chew on I guess.