RE: Indoctrinating Children in Religion
March 9, 2015 at 12:40 pm
(This post was last modified: March 9, 2015 at 12:44 pm by Crossless2.0.)
Teach your kids how to think, not what to think. Encourage questions. Provide them with good source material so they can learn to look up things themselves. And if you must bombard them with religious instruction at a young age, then respect them enough to expose them to a variety of religious and non-religious traditions and let them come to their own conclusions. Your children are people in their own right -- not your property and not clay you get to mold into your own misshapen image.
I know, I know . . . it's pie in the sky, at least as far as most religious households are concerned. The last thing they want is a real marketplace of ideas where their bullshit competes on an even footing with other points of view. But I can dream.
I know, I know . . . it's pie in the sky, at least as far as most religious households are concerned. The last thing they want is a real marketplace of ideas where their bullshit competes on an even footing with other points of view. But I can dream.
