I Think Indoctrinating Children With Religion Is Child Abuse

Ha, warped view of abuse. The child only feels a further sense of security. With that logic, anyone who introduces their kid to the Easter bunny or Santa is abusing them, not that they are comparable. Also is it wrong to round your child well? To teach them multiple views?

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UndeadPrivateer · 31-35, M

Fostering a false sense of security is indeed a form of abuse. You should be teaching your children ways to truly feel secure in themselves. If they choose to believe in a religion or not is up to them.

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Viviankimmy · 26-30, F

I don't believe you should force your faith but to leave ideas open and being a child to church as a family is fine

Viviankimmy · 26-30, F

Ok again you are missing my point, to be taught openly that mommy and daddy believe in God and this is why and if you want to believe it too you can, is NOT brainwashing. As long as the parents present it in this way it is fine. As ny mother did, I don't believe In God and this is why if you want to that's your choice

UndeadPrivateer · 31-35, M

@Viviankimmy: That's also just not indoctrination. Indoctrination would be saying that you need to believe in god [i]or else[/i] and [i]don't you dare fucking question it for even a minute.[/i] This does quickly get on a bit of a slippery slope in that one can make the argument that religions do this innately with the concepts of reward and punishment in the afterlife and all that business, but I think people should in fact be free to believe whatever they want to believe.

I would simply prefer they not be forced to do so at a young age when they don't even fully understand the concept of death or the context under which these religions were created. Or even just the nature of the religious organizations themselves, being made up of innately flawed human beings that are absolutely not incapable of lying and in fact many have distorted facts of their own religion and altered meanings of things over time to suit their own ends. That is mental abuse, in my opinion. If you want to go into it educated and knowledgeable of the subject, be my guest. And hell, if you want to go into it blind as well there's really nothing I can do to stop you.

Also, yeah, abuse is a wide variety of things. It is not purely physical. Verbal and emotional/mental/psychological abuse are all real things as well.

Malina · 51-55, F

I expose my children to all possibilities. Although we all went to church.. I never preached one religion is the only way.

Goralski · 51-55, M

NOT SANTA

Harriet03 · 41-45, F

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JaggedLittlePill · 46-50, F

You can teach them all of those things without teaching them religion. But hey..whatevs

Viviankimmy · 26-30, F

Keep in mind to some its not even a false sense God is real. I was raised atheist but my foster parents allowed me to explore whatever I wanted. I was adopted at 8 and my mother was also atheist, again she let me question everything, I chose religion based on my personal experience. Was I abused? I was 19 when I made that choice.
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