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Please explain how you personally would distinguish between telling your children what you belive while allowing them to make their own decision and indoctrinating them.
You mean you dont know!!
Isn't teaching them how to use rationality and logic indoctrinating them also? If not, why?
Its the difference between
A:telling a child theres an elephant in the kitchin and B: telling them to go and see if theres an elephant in the kitchin
see how simple that is.
A: is indoctrination because it imposing a view with the strong possibility that it is unfounded(it is very unlikely that there is in fact and elephant in your kitchin).
B: Is showing asking the child to go and check for itself, it is not imposing a view parse but asking that the child go see and make up its own mind.
It seems to me one could easily look at whatever a child is being taught and if it is not what that one believes, claim that it is "indoctrination" and, therefore, "tantamount to child abuse". It also seems to me that whenever one group sees that another teaches their children something they do not agree with, it is labelled as indoctrination and/or child abuse.
You are about to equate atheism with a religion sometime soon arent ya I can see it coming on.
Also, please explain to me how I can somehow force a child into making a decision to follow Christianity. Personally, I do not think it is possible. I do think that whether or not a person becomes a Christian is a personal issue and that I cannot make such a decision for my children. So while I do teach them from a Christian perspective, I also teach them that they must make their own decision on the matter. The only thing that I think one could do is scare them into professing a certain belief when they really don't believe it. But in my opinion, professing to be a Christian without really believing is totally useless and, therefore, I would not do this.
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Well lets see you are a potent force in a young childs life, when they are young they believe what you say without question. I myself used to believe in santa because my parents told me he was real, (the spell was broken by my older sister when I was about seven) but imagine if no-one had broken that spell, maybe I'd still believe the lie. Thats christianity, santa for adults.
Really I'd of thought you could have worked some of this out for yourself. Oh well.
Please explain how you personally would distinguish between telling your children what you belive while allowing them to make their own decision and indoctrinating them.
You mean you dont know!!
Isn't teaching them how to use rationality and logic indoctrinating them also? If not, why?
Its the difference between
A:telling a child theres an elephant in the kitchin and B: telling them to go and see if theres an elephant in the kitchin
see how simple that is.
A: is indoctrination because it imposing a view with the strong possibility that it is unfounded(it is very unlikely that there is in fact and elephant in your kitchin).
B: Is showing asking the child to go and check for itself, it is not imposing a view parse but asking that the child go see and make up its own mind.
It seems to me one could easily look at whatever a child is being taught and if it is not what that one believes, claim that it is "indoctrination" and, therefore, "tantamount to child abuse". It also seems to me that whenever one group sees that another teaches their children something they do not agree with, it is labelled as indoctrination and/or child abuse.
You are about to equate atheism with a religion sometime soon arent ya I can see it coming on.
Also, please explain to me how I can somehow force a child into making a decision to follow Christianity. Personally, I do not think it is possible. I do think that whether or not a person becomes a Christian is a personal issue and that I cannot make such a decision for my children. So while I do teach them from a Christian perspective, I also teach them that they must make their own decision on the matter. The only thing that I think one could do is scare them into professing a certain belief when they really don't believe it. But in my opinion, professing to be a Christian without really believing is totally useless and, therefore, I would not do this.
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Well lets see you are a potent force in a young childs life, when they are young they believe what you say without question. I myself used to believe in santa because my parents told me he was real, (the spell was broken by my older sister when I was about seven) but imagine if no-one had broken that spell, maybe I'd still believe the lie. Thats christianity, santa for adults.
Really I'd of thought you could have worked some of this out for yourself. Oh well.
You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.
Tinkety Tonk and down with the Nazis.
