A couple of questions for atheists

[robvalue]

If someone is teaching their kid to be a racist, yes I'd say that's abuse. I don't think cats are comparable, I agree that is stupid but fairly harmless superstition. Very mild abuse, maybe, if knowingly imparted. I don't think either of these things in any way compare to teaching a child it may be tortured forever. It's in a league of it's own. You don't just come to conclusions that stuff like that is real without it being drilled into you.

I'm not talking about whether it's intended abuse. I want people to know it causes damage, and to consider stopping from doing it.

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I don't think I could compare inadvertently passing on your own superstitions which you don't talk about, and deliberately drilling false truths into someone's head, scolding them until they accept them as true. This is not teaching a child. If religion is to be taught, then it should be through reason like everything else a child is taught. If the parents can't do it through reason then that's too bad. Young children do not need to know about hell. It's not a brute fact they have to just accept, like hot ovens hurt you etc. for their own benefit.