Do Christian Parents Abuse their Children?

[Edwardo Piet]

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.

I think that anyone who raises their children in a cult is abusing their children and as far as I am concerned religions are just socially accepted cults.

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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.

I don't think teaching children about religion should be disallowed, just as teaching children about Hitler shouldn't be disallowed, and both of those should actually be encouraged. But teaching children that a deluded creed of beliefs that flies in the face of facts and reality and indoctrinates them so that it's hard to shake that nonsense off when they're older, I do indeed think is abusive.

It's indoctrination that is abusive.

Teaching children about something is not the same as miseducating and indoctrinating.

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Your mother never forced you to learn abc's? Child abuse!!! 😋

That's neither miseducation nor indoctrination. That's just education. Your post is a classic example of a false analogy.

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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.

I agree with you that not all religious doctrines are doctrines that kill or likely kill. But I disagree with you that indoctrinating children into a cult/religion isn't more abusive than educating children about different religions.