(September 16, 2017 at 5:18 pm)Khemikal Wrote:(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.
So long as you say "disagree with god" or "god will disown you" or that "god will torture you" it's kay.
Just don't say the Great Pumpkin disagrees, or will disown you, or torture you for all eternity - because that makes you a deviant and CPS needs to get in there right now before you grow up to make meat sculptures out of people. Truth is, religion get a pass(even among the non-religious) because of it's familiarity, but only the familiar religions. Christians don't even give other -christians- a pass, nevermind muslims or other assorted devil worshippers. This is the product of our traditional deference to traditional religious norms.
Not much I like from Sam Harris, but a quote of his is very apt here: "There is sanity in numbers."
If enough people believe the horseshit, it turns into roses.
