RE: Stop Child Religion
October 11, 2011 at 11:39 am
(This post was last modified: October 11, 2011 at 11:53 am by franklludwig.)
(October 9, 2011 at 5:23 pm)Rwandrall Wrote: I was raised in a religious household going to mass every week. Never have i ever been the victim of ANY kind of emotional abuse. Neither my parents nor my church threatened me with Hell or Death. EVER. You seem to think that the religious bombard their children with threats of Hell, however the VAST majority of christians, at least in the US and in Europe believe that any good person can go to Heaven - in direct contradiction with their book, but they dont read it anyways
I can see that there are different levels of intensity, and moderate worshippers may have a more subtle approach. But even in those cases, the children will be aware of an invisible creature looking over their shoulder at all times, will be taught that they - as every human being - are 'sinners', and will at least reflect on the possibility of not going to heaven.
(October 9, 2011 at 5:23 pm)Rwandrall Wrote: People transmit who they are to their children, and religion is part of this. You can't ask someone not to transmit their religion just like you can't ask them to transmit their culture, their language or their values. If religion is "emotional abuse", then taking your kid to the Corrida in Spain also is abuse.
Yes, I think taking children to a bloodspilling fest like the Corrida is child abuse as well. And as much as I respect all traditions and cultures, any parts of them that harm anybody else should be banned.
(October 9, 2011 at 5:43 pm)Rwandrall Wrote: Christians don't follow any of these Old Testament rules since zombie-jesus has "replaced the Old Covenant with a new one", making this paragraph a straw-man argument.
According to the New Testament, Jesus came to fulfil the scripture, not to abolish it. Stories from the Old Testament still account for a lot of the sermons (and Sunday school teachings), such as Abraham's near-human sacrifice, and amended versions of the Ten Commandments are still being preached. The Old Testament is only disregarded when its use is inconvenient.
