RE: Is it wrong to teach kids about Hell?
December 19, 2015 at 9:05 pm
(This post was last modified: December 19, 2015 at 9:05 pm by Homeless Nutter.)
(December 19, 2015 at 2:01 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: I don't think it is objectively wrong to teach your kids about Hell, if that is truly what you believe. [...]
Really? Does the reason for the sincere belief play ANY part in this judgement? Is it "objectively" right to use a threat of unimaginably cruel and inhumane punishment against your own children, simply because you were threatened that way by your parents, back when you thought they were magic and knew everything about everything? Even if the information you give them conflicts directly with the available knowledge and moral standards?
Then I suppose there's nothing "objectively" wrong with physically or psychologically abusing your child, if you were yourself abused as a child and you're stupid/crazy enough to believe that to be the way to raise offspring...
Primitive goat-herders, millenia ago had an excuse for being cruel to children - their lives were hard; pain, fear and death were an every-day thing. But people who live in the comfort of 21st century AND find it necessary to inflict cruelty on their children - even if they do so because they can't think of another way to influence the child's behavior - yeah, they're "objectively" WRONG.
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one." - George Bernard Shaw
