(August 17, 2014 at 7:45 pm)Raevoryx Wrote: I was scrolling through a Social Networking site (I'm still following multiple Christian Organizations since they usually don't post all that much and I tend to be curious), and found an article linked by AWANA about the study done on children showing that children who are exposed to Bible Stories have a harder time distinguishing reality from fiction.
Congratulations on de-converting, may reason and rationality accompany you trough your life journey!
The reason why religious people have the habit of indoctrinating their children and won't allow them to be exposed to different ideas, faiths or anything that contradicts their narrow minded worldview is because they are aware of their doctrines' fragilities. When an atheist criticizes a Christian, the Christian becomes utterly offended and says 'You're going against my religious freedom! It's my personal faith!'; when the Christian criticizes the atheist, the atheist makes a counter-critic. There's a huge difference between both. Parents are realizing a faithless era is coming and are doing anything they can to prevent it from happening - But they will fail.
Children have a hard time distinguishing reality from fiction because they are taught that fiction is real, I don't need to elaborate much on this. If I taught my children that Batman is completely real and to never question it, they'd have problems associating Superman with fiction and would assume he was real too.
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you
