(July 5, 2017 at 4:43 pm)Brian37 Wrote:(July 5, 2017 at 4:31 pm)Astonished Wrote: You fail to recognize the distinction between indoctrination and teaching. Telling a child selectively edited excerpts from the bible if they believe those are good morality tales is one thing, telling them that they are true, forbidding them to question it, and every other horrible thing that comes along with real indoctrination, THAT is what is violates those children's human rights. Using those as fairy tales in the same was as Aesop's fables and Grimm stories is entirely fine, as they won't become any more prevalent in those kids' lives than the latter examples.
That being said, fuck those parents who complain about not being able to brainwash their kids.
I don't think it is mentally healthy at all to tell a kid about everyone around them that disagrees with them, "They are all evil and will burn in hell, so don't be like them", is really abuse I agree much to the same degree if those same parents convinced an underage kid they should not get medical treatment.
The disgusting irony about the far right in America is that they are all ready to teach their own kids absolutism while rightfully pointing out the abuse in the east of the parents indoctrinating their kids to the point of absolutism.
That's called Cognitive Dissonance. That actually gives me an idea for a children's book to help reverse indoctrination, and give easy definitions for these terms and funny illustrations...
Religions were invented to impress and dupe illiterate, superstitious stone-age peasants. So in this modern, enlightened age of information, what's your excuse? Or are you saying with all your advantages, you were still tricked as easily as those early humans?
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There is no better way to convey the least amount of information in the greatest amount of words than to try explaining your religious views.
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There is no better way to convey the least amount of information in the greatest amount of words than to try explaining your religious views.