(July 1, 2010 at 10:28 am)rjh4 Wrote: Eloquent...(read sarcasm).Even if you think that word is too extreme, or means something more specific to war, or whatever, there is still the issue of the religion causing fear of doing nonharmful things like thoughts, for instance not actively thinking 'love' thoughts (worship, prayer, adoration, etc) about someone (your xtian god) when ORDERED to, gets punished with eternal torture. That is cruel and unfair, unlike warnings against doing harmful things like murder. Also, the punishment is not real, whereas jail/execution for murder is real. Same with the fact that there is no god reading the kid's mind constantly as threatened, unlike witnesses/clues/evidence/forensics/autopsies seeing that a murder has been done.
While I somewhat understand his point relative to his experience, to conclude that all Chrisianity is like this or even that mentioning hell to a child makes one a terrorist is ridiculous. It is like saying that if you tell your child not to murder someone because you might be put to death by the government, you are a terrorist. Actions and inactions have consequences. Teaching children or anybody else that such is the case and what those consequences might be does not, in my opinion, automatically make one a terrorist.
I'm really shitty at giving kudos and rep. That's because I would be inconsistent in remembering to do them, and also I don't really want it to show if any favouritism is happening. Even worse would be inconsistencies causing false favouritisms to show. So, fuck it. Just assume that I've given you some good rep and a number of kudos, and everyone should be happy...
