The End Game of Atheism

[ShadowWolf1986]

Atheism is the lack of belief in a God or gods. An Atheistic house would lack pictures, texts, knick knacks depicting a God or gods. In other words an Atheistic house lacks religion. In contrast, a Christian's house has those things, and has religion.

There's no reason why a house that belongs to an atheist (which is what I presume you mean by 'atheistic house')can't have items associated with religion in it. The definition of atheist is not 'eschews ownership of pro-theistic materials'. I have three Bibles and a Qu'ran in mine. If you owned no religious items, it would not mean your house belongs to an atheist. Houses can't have or lack religion, they can only have or lack relgiious items.

Tell me how a child growing up in an Atheistic house wouldn't be "brainwashed" simply by their surroundings and their parents personalities by the lack of religion. The opposite is ascribed to me and my ilk like we're some kind of perverts for teaching our children our religion.

If you're not putting pressure on someone to believe (or not believe) what you want them to, the term 'brainwashing' doesn't apply, because that's what brainwashing is. If an atheist or theist parent puts pressure on their children to hold a particular viewpoint; what they're doing can reasonably be described as brainwashing...although I think the term should be reserved for a more concerted effort, like punishing them for not believing what you tell them to. Making a conscious effort NOT to put pressure on one's child to believe a certain way cannot reasonably be described as brainwashing. There's no such thing as inadvertant brainwashing.

The pressure would be applied indirectly, regardless of direct pressure. Children usually don't like to disappoint their parents (brainwashing), unless they hate you, so an Atheist daughter would feel uncomfortable and possibly ashamed bringing her evangelical Christian preacher boyfriend home to meet the parents. I know my daughter would feel that way about bringing an Atheist boyfriend home, and it would have nothing to do with her flashbacks of me beating her with a rod for not reciting John chapter 5 three time a day, which I don't do.