Religion and children

[CindysRain]

I think that something that grown-ups may not realize is that children can vividly imagine such things and aren't always good at compartmentalizing or finding ways of reaching an accommodation with them. With such a short life and few experiences, anything can make a deep and troubling (and lasting) impression.

Yes, my point exactly!!

I kept an easy, open line of communication for my kids, all their lives - yet they never felt comfortable talking about religious fears.

Religious parents should never assume that if their kids are raised from infancy in church, that they are well-adjusted. The burden they carry from sin and hell - regarding themselves, and everyone they love, is over-the-top and abusive, in my opinion.