(February 7, 2020 at 11:22 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: If you constantly tell your young child there is a monster under the bed who will gobble them up if they dare get out of bed before morning and they believe it and lay in their bed till dawn even if they are sick or need the restroom because of the fear you have created - how is telling them if they lie, swear, cheat, etc. they will be burned for eternity any less emotionally abusive? It's threatening behavior used for control with one using a monster and one using a god...never mind...they are both using a monster to instill fear on a young psyche. Both are abusive.
There is no monster under the bed but there is a hell. That's one way the analogy is false. When my children were little I ,and their teachers, would also mention the mercy of God. And a Christian parent does use the threat of hell to control their kids. For the very good reason that parents don't decide if their kids go to heaven or hell. The analogy is entirely false.
But you didn't answer the question. Are you willing to use the power of the state and child welfare laws to prevent parents from teaching their children the Christian faith. If so, we have a very serious political problem.
