I Think Indoctrinating Children With Religion Is Child Abuse

@UndeadPrivateer: Yessss!

@UndeadPrivateer: god forbid they should have a childhood

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.

@Viviankimmy: I don't think you understand the meaning of the term 'indoctrinate.'

@Viviankimmy: The difference in your story as compared to what you posted about was that you were able to choose your own way...indoctrinating is not about choice.

And you don't understand abuse abuse is your dad squeezing your already broken hand unroll you cry. Abuse is being called a far cunt when you are underweight. Abuse is watching your mother kill someone in front of you. Abuse is not giving a child hope. My beliefs came about starting with my mom working at a chrostian camp as a chef. And learning about God it was my decition to become a Christian.

@Viviankimmy: Abuse can also be mental. Whixh includes indoctrination. Take your ignorance elsewhere.

This...coming from a victom of abuse..both physical and mental.

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Being called a far cunt 2r/7 isn't mental abuse. Being told to go sell yourself on a corner cause that's all you'll ever be good for. Why do you think I ended up in foster care hun. If anyone knows true abuse it's me

Brainwashing/control

Imagine that...


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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

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

@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.