(March 26, 2013 at 11:17 pm)jstrodel Wrote: Religion and families: Religion has been dealing with family issues for thousands of years.And they haven't much changed methods. Although, to their credit, they no longer advocate the stoning of rebellious kids.
(March 26, 2013 at 11:17 pm)jstrodel Wrote: This is different from an atheist who knows nothing about families, but goes around proselytizing atheism to kids and creating media that is aimed at kids (for example, see "The Infidel Guy").The way you say this implies that they know nothing about families because they are atheist. This was intentional, was it not?
(March 26, 2013 at 11:17 pm)jstrodel Wrote: It is one thing if you are an atheist who is a social worker professionally, but another thing to deliberate disrupt the moral life of families by teaching them that believing in God is the same as believing in the tooth fairy. Notice the language is intentionally designed to play on youths psychological processes of maturing, and is intentionally an attack on young people who desire to have maturity in their lives.How many people actually tell this stuff to little kids? I can't think of any. I have only ever heard (from personal stories of people on this board) of parents not indoctrinating their kids, and the kids coming to that conclusion on their own.
(March 26, 2013 at 11:17 pm)jstrodel Wrote: The atheists who do this will not explain the right way to live as a family, they will just try and tell people that it is foolish and even use the word "evil" to refer to believing in God and trying to follow religion. They are poisoning the minds of the young and doing damage that is far more serious to them than would happen if someone only raped them. A rape will not cause someone to lose all of their morality over their entire life, but being taught that morality is a social construction and can be ignored in many cases will be with them the rest of their life, constantly removing their sense of responsibility for others.Who's teaching that morals can be ignored in most cases? Do you live on a farm? Because you've built an awful lot of strawmen.
If any atheist here acts as jstrodel outlined above, could they make themselves known, because I can't think of anyone who fits into that, and I know I certainly don't.
John Adams Wrote:The Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.