Is it wrong to teach kids about Hell?

[God of Mr. Hanky]

There are parents who use their own children as sex toys, and then there are children who abuse them with images of the most unthinkable horror imaginable, traumatizing them into a lifetime of paranoid fear. I won't decide which is worse, but the latter group of parents deserves to be treated no better!

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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"?

Goddammit, I know I'm the one who's gonna stink for making this connection, but if the Amish do that only to young women, then I suspect it's really so their future husbands can get fellatio without the teeth!