(November 20, 2017 at 7:25 am)Bow Before Zeus Wrote:(November 20, 2017 at 6:40 am)Grandizer Wrote: Saying it's abuse is pushing it. At the end of the day, parents get to decide what they want to teach their chidlren, and even atheist parents are prone to teaching nonsense to their kids.
Here's an extreme and obvious example of child abuse by religious parents.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016...dical-help
Teaching children primitive iron age mythologies in direct contradiction to modern science and medicine, is indeed child abuse. It leads to the suffering and death of children generation after generation. It perpetuates mentally warped concepts that kill people - children and adults. Teaching children this is child abuse. Because of this, I disagree with you. Parents should not be allowed to teach children doctrines that kill.
Logically speaking, not all religious doctrines are doctrines that kill or likely kill. So disagree with me, but in doing so, you're being unreasonable.