RE: When, Where, How and Why did you become Atheist?
October 8, 2015 at 12:48 am
(This post was last modified: October 8, 2015 at 12:55 am by bambi_swag.)
(October 8, 2015 at 12:47 am)TheRocketSurgeon Wrote:Not "they". She.(October 8, 2015 at 12:15 am)bambi_swag Wrote: Oh please. There is a point in which somethings like "miseducation child-abuse" sound ridiculous a I must start replying. I mean, if a parent honestly thinks that the moon is made of cheese and noses parted the read sea and teaches what he believes is truth to his children, you have no business interfering and giving your two shits on what you think is the truth.
Except they didn't say "miseducation child-abuse". Are you a deliberate liar, or just semi-literate?
They said "Dawkins argues it's child abuse" and then, later, made a second statement: "it is miseducation and kind of wrong at the very least."
If you wish to argue that it's okay for parents to teach them things that may harm them or cause them to have psychological problems, such as the concept that there are demons in the world and they are seeking to twist our minds, which may instill paranoia and delusional thinking in that child as they grow. That is why Dawkins likens it to abuse, and part of why Sagan wrote The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark.
And yes, Parents have the right to teach kids what they want. And you have the right to mind your own business. ladidia like teaching religion is "psychological harm" my ass. What if I think teaching abortion and atheism to children is "psychological harm"? Who is to say what is "psychological harm"?