(April 1, 2019 at 8:57 am)Simon Moon Wrote:(April 1, 2019 at 6:56 am)Acrobat Wrote: I don't have to brainwash my kids at all. They'll know the truth, not based on something I tell them, but based on what's shown, and cannot be said. Hopefully as evident in my life, my wife's life, my communities life for them, as it was for me.
Yeah, as if your kids being surrounded by many adult authority figures, that all believe in the same unevidenced, irrational beliefs, does not have any indoctrinating effect on them.
Sunday church, Bible study, Christian youth camp, etc... No indoctrination there, nope.
Sorry, but I've been there. You may not believe you are brainwashing your kids, but that doesn't change the fact.
I don't see myself as an authority on truth. I see truth as it's own authority. Brainwashing usually requires some type of isolation from other views, fear of information that might undue that brainwashing. Yet the world they occupy, is not isolated in such a way, in school, college, from friends who don't share their religious beliefs, etc... They'll occupy a life exposed to all sorts of views, and I don't find any of that a threat.
I have no anxiety or fear of those things for them, anymore so than I do for myself. Clearly I exist in an atheist forum of all places, where people strongly disagree with my religious belief, lol, as well as read works by unbelievers, and religious folks who don't share my views.
I no more need to tell them they need to believe that Christianity is true, because I say it's true, than I need to tell them the sun exists, for them to believe in the Sun. I don't see myself tasked with forcing them to believe what I believe, but in showing them that which I see. And that which is seen, they can recognize as the truth itself. Just all I have to do is show them the sun, to know the sun exists.