This Has to Stop

[Angrboda]

Meh. Parents pass on their beliefs to their children under conditions in which it is unlikely for the child to doubt. If you want to call that indoctrination, then yes, I believe parents have the right to indoctrinate their children into their religious beliefs. Somewhere along the line you have to make the case that having religious beliefs is an evil unto itself in order to make the case that transmitting their religious beliefs in this manner is immoral. Parents "indoctrinate" their children into a lot of beliefs. I don't think it makes sense to interfere with the process by which we transmit our culture to our children. What are you suggesting? Criminal penalties if "teaching" passes over into "indoctrination"? I don't personally believe that the way a family transmits its culture to its children can be characterized that simply. Children are taught the concepts of religion. That's more than half the battle toward getting them to believe. Is that indoctrination? I don't think so.