RE: This Has to Stop
September 16, 2017 at 6:21 pm
(This post was last modified: September 16, 2017 at 6:41 pm by Astonished.)
(September 16, 2017 at 4:26 pm)Losty Wrote: I don't necessarily think raising a child into religion is abuse. There are a lot of factors going into it, are you teaching your child to believe uncritally that this is fact without allowing them to learn to question everything? Are you telling your child that if they grow up to disagree with you that you'll disown them or that they'll be tortured for all eternity? Those things seem abusive to me.
This is in a nutshell, the distinction I was making between merely introducing the idea (not to the exclusion of any or all others) and outright indoctrination. There are huge problems and other flaws in bringing up religion in child-rearing in and of themselves, but I wouldn't call that abuse in the same way as intentional indoctrination.
(September 16, 2017 at 5:22 pm)Khemikal Wrote: It;s impoosible to convey the message of christianity without entailing horrid things. Christians don;t think they're horrid things, but that;s because christians fail the outsider test - even though theyre more than capable of applying it to any other christian cult...or any other religion.
A person cannot so much as tell a child (or anyone else) the christian message without suggesting that the solution to their inherited degeneracy...as defined by a magic book, is to kill the better man. Hallelujah!
Yep, there's them other probs I was alluding to about simple religious instruction. So while I'm still going to shake my head and roll my eyes when I hear a parent say they're going to raise a child and give them those lessons along with everything else, I'm not going to condemn them as abusers.
In other news, the same youtube channel I got the original inspiration for this thread from had another video that sicks me the fuck out...
Watching that little girl, all I could hear was, "Gooble-gobble, gooble-gobble, one of us, one of us!"
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.
