RE: A couple of questions for atheists
January 5, 2015 at 8:26 pm
(This post was last modified: January 5, 2015 at 8:27 pm by Regina.)
1) I only think it's child abuse if it's indoctrination to the point of "the Bible/Quran/insertreligioustexthere is infallible fact".
I think that, if you're going to raise your child religious, you should do it encouraging them to approach the Bible and religious teaching with critical analysis. Teach them that the Bible is at least a semi-fictional symbolic story, and to listen to the teachings of the religion and make up their own mind whether they agree or not.
I definitely think threatening your child with Hell, especially for petty and/or victimless "crimes" like homosexuality or gender-noncomformity, is very abusive. No child should be threatened with Hell. Ever.
2) I'm completely secularist, so I think religion should be kept totally out of education (apart from in a historical or societal context). Religion should never be forced onto anyone.
P.S this is my first post, apologies for the lack of avatar hehe
I think that, if you're going to raise your child religious, you should do it encouraging them to approach the Bible and religious teaching with critical analysis. Teach them that the Bible is at least a semi-fictional symbolic story, and to listen to the teachings of the religion and make up their own mind whether they agree or not.
I definitely think threatening your child with Hell, especially for petty and/or victimless "crimes" like homosexuality or gender-noncomformity, is very abusive. No child should be threatened with Hell. Ever.
2) I'm completely secularist, so I think religion should be kept totally out of education (apart from in a historical or societal context). Religion should never be forced onto anyone.
P.S this is my first post, apologies for the lack of avatar hehe
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"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie
