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Do Christian Parents Abuse their Children?
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RE: Christian Parents Abuse their Children
I would agree that childhood indoctrination into any one specific religion or cult of any kind is abusive to the innocent mind of a child (and religions are cults really, they're just cults that are popular and accepted). Parents who teach their children comparative religion aren't abusive though. My parents taught me all about different religions in an unbiased way saying that "This is what people believe", and I saw that they were just like mythology and all equally silly. My parents themselves aren't atheists and also believe in their own spiritual nonsense that is equally silly.

I'd resent my parents bitterly and lose all respect for them if they had indoctrinated me into any one religion and when I was an adult I realized it was all nonsense. For starters I may have not been able to shake it off and I may have spent my whole life believing in nonsense just because my parents decided to talk their own delusions at me as if it were fact.

If parents created a cult where they convinced children that the moon is made of cheese and fought all attempts by the school or anyone else to teach their children otherwise, and these children went into their adulthood believing the moon is made of cheese, I think people would suddenly realize how abusive that is. Religion is no different . . . and in fact is potentially far more harmful than the belief that the moon is made of cheese (depending on the type of religion taught).

(November 19, 2017 at 10:43 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Maybe that stroke affected him more than we thought.

I think that he made a similar statement to this many years before his stroke.

And in fact I think his actual statement was that the labeling of children like "This is a Christian child", "This is a Muslim child" or even "This is an atheist child" is abusive.
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RE: Christian Parents Abuse their Children - by SteveII - November 19, 2017 at 9:49 am
RE: Christian Parents Abuse their Children - by SteveII - November 19, 2017 at 8:13 pm
RE: Christian Parents Abuse their Children - by Catholic_Lady - November 19, 2017 at 10:57 am
RE: Christian Parents Abuse their Children - by Succubus - November 19, 2017 at 11:19 am
RE: Christian Parents Abuse their Children - by Catholic_Lady - November 19, 2017 at 11:36 am
RE: Christian Parents Abuse their Children - by LadyForCamus - November 19, 2017 at 9:31 pm
RE: Christian Parents Abuse their Children - by Catholic_Lady - November 19, 2017 at 9:38 pm
RE: Christian Parents Abuse their Children - by Succubus - November 19, 2017 at 10:14 pm
RE: Christian Parents Abuse their Children - by LadyForCamus - November 19, 2017 at 11:17 pm
RE: Christian Parents Abuse their Children - by Succubus - November 20, 2017 at 12:59 am
RE: Christian Parents Abuse their Children - by Fake Messiah - November 20, 2017 at 2:57 am
RE: Christian Parents Abuse their Children - by Catholic_Lady - November 20, 2017 at 5:43 am
RE: Christian Parents Abuse their Children - by LadyForCamus - November 20, 2017 at 3:32 pm
RE: Christian Parents Abuse their Children - by Catholic_Lady - November 20, 2017 at 3:35 pm
RE: Christian Parents Abuse their Children - by LadyForCamus - November 20, 2017 at 4:27 pm
RE: Christian Parents Abuse their Children - by Edwardo Piet - November 20, 2017 at 5:53 am
RE: Christian Parents Abuse their Children - by brewer - November 19, 2017 at 11:33 am
RE: Christian Parents Abuse their Children - by Aoi Magi - November 19, 2017 at 11:59 am
RE: Christian Parents Abuse their Children - by Catholic_Lady - November 19, 2017 at 4:43 pm
RE: Christian Parents Abuse their Children - by LastPoet - November 19, 2017 at 4:54 pm
RE: Christian Parents Abuse their Children - by Succubus - November 19, 2017 at 6:28 pm
RE: Christian Parents Abuse their Children - by Minimalist - November 19, 2017 at 5:04 pm
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RE: Christian Parents Abuse their Children - by Aegon - November 19, 2017 at 10:06 pm
RE: Christian Parents Abuse their Children - by John V - November 20, 2017 at 9:00 am
RE: Christian Parents Abuse their Children - by SteveII - November 20, 2017 at 9:41 am
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RE: Christian Parents Abuse their Children - by John V - November 20, 2017 at 10:49 am
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RE: Christian Parents Abuse their Children - by Catholic_Lady - November 20, 2017 at 10:18 am
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RE: Christian Parents Abuse their Children - by John V - November 21, 2017 at 6:50 am
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RE: Christian Parents Abuse their Children - by vorlon13 - November 21, 2017 at 10:33 am
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RE: Christian Parents Abuse their Children - by Neo-Scholastic - November 21, 2017 at 12:17 pm
RE: Christian Parents Abuse their Children - by Catholic_Lady - November 21, 2017 at 1:32 pm
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RE: Christian Parents Abuse their Children - by Shell B - November 21, 2017 at 1:22 pm
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RE: Christian Parents Abuse their Children - by Grandizer - November 21, 2017 at 12:49 pm
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RE: Christian Parents Abuse their Children - by Catholic_Lady - November 21, 2017 at 11:34 pm
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RE: Do Christian Parents Abuse their Children? - by Cod - November 22, 2017 at 5:10 pm
RE: Do Christian Parents Abuse their Children? - by chorlton - November 27, 2017 at 12:02 pm
RE: Do Christian Parents Abuse their Children? - by SteveII - November 27, 2017 at 12:48 pm
RE: Do Christian Parents Abuse their Children? - by Abaddon_ire - November 27, 2017 at 12:52 pm
RE: Do Christian Parents Abuse their Children? - by chorlton - November 27, 2017 at 12:51 pm
RE: Do Christian Parents Abuse their Children? - by SteveII - November 27, 2017 at 1:30 pm
RE: Do Christian Parents Abuse their Children? - by chorlton - November 27, 2017 at 12:52 pm
RE: Do Christian Parents Abuse their Children? - by SteveII - November 27, 2017 at 1:12 pm
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RE: Do Christian Parents Abuse their Children? - by SteveII - November 27, 2017 at 1:39 pm
RE: Do Christian Parents Abuse their Children? - by John V - November 27, 2017 at 1:41 pm
RE: Do Christian Parents Abuse their Children? - by SteveII - November 27, 2017 at 1:50 pm
RE: Do Christian Parents Abuse their Children? - by chorlton - November 27, 2017 at 1:47 pm
RE: Do Christian Parents Abuse their Children? - by chorlton - November 27, 2017 at 1:51 pm
RE: Do Christian Parents Abuse their Children? - by John V - November 27, 2017 at 2:06 pm
RE: Do Christian Parents Abuse their Children? - by Shell B - November 27, 2017 at 2:39 pm
RE: Do Christian Parents Abuse their Children? - by SteveII - November 27, 2017 at 4:18 pm
RE: Do Christian Parents Abuse their Children? - by chorlton - November 27, 2017 at 2:12 pm
RE: Do Christian Parents Abuse their Children? - by Losty - November 27, 2017 at 5:43 pm
RE: Do Christian Parents Abuse their Children? - by Shell B - November 27, 2017 at 4:46 pm
RE: Do Christian Parents Abuse their Children? - by SteveII - November 27, 2017 at 5:02 pm
RE: Do Christian Parents Abuse their Children? - by chorlton - November 27, 2017 at 4:49 pm
RE: Do Christian Parents Abuse their Children? - by Shell B - November 27, 2017 at 4:52 pm
RE: Do Christian Parents Abuse their Children? - by Grandizer - November 27, 2017 at 6:10 pm
RE: Do Christian Parents Abuse their Children? - by Grandizer - November 27, 2017 at 6:41 pm
RE: Do Christian Parents Abuse their Children? - by Shell B - November 28, 2017 at 11:47 am
RE: Do Christian Parents Abuse their Children? - by Grandizer - November 29, 2017 at 5:31 am
RE: Do Christian Parents Abuse their Children? - by SteveII - November 28, 2017 at 11:54 am
RE: Do Christian Parents Abuse their Children? - by Shell B - November 29, 2017 at 12:33 pm
RE: Do Christian Parents Abuse their Children? - by vorlon13 - November 28, 2017 at 12:26 pm

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