RE: Is it wrong to teach kids about Hell?
December 19, 2015 at 9:33 pm
(This post was last modified: December 19, 2015 at 9:34 pm by Homeless Nutter.)
(December 19, 2015 at 9:15 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: I goes I was an abused child and will be a child abuser. Better call CPS.
Not necessarily. Our grandparents' generation still condoned beating their children bloody. Our parents' generation took it down a few notches and our generation seems to be largely against using violence against children. Commonly held religious beliefs are also becoming more liberal and less focused on imaginary violence. So there is progress.
Still - there are many children, who are missing out on the benefits of that social progress, often because of bad parenting, or mental disorders, masking as religious beliefs and getting away from public scrutiny. Don't you believe, for example, that the Amish are abusing their children, by denying them things, like modern education, or dental care? Is it not "objectively" wrong, or just plain-old wrong, that they pull all the teeth of young girls, replacing them with wooden dentures, to avoid future problems, because they believe, that modern medicine is "naughty"?
"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
