RE: Indoctrinating Children in Religion
March 9, 2015 at 10:09 pm
(This post was last modified: March 9, 2015 at 10:35 pm by Zenith.)
(March 9, 2015 at 1:25 pm)Irrational Wrote: Indoctrinating is not the same as teaching by the way. Indoctrination involves obliging someone to unconditionally accept your views without considering other options.For children, indoctrination is, basically, teaching someone the truth you believe in. You cannot say that X forced his beliefs upon his 6 years old child. The child simply believes whatever he's being told. If you say "There's a guy living in the sky" he will believe. By the time he grew older, he won't even need to be "forced" to go to church or do ritual A or B.
Teaching morality to your kids is a good thing, but explain to them why you believe something is right or wrong, don't just impose your standards. It would also help to enable them to develop empathy for others with time.
(March 9, 2015 at 10:03 pm)dyresand Wrote:(March 9, 2015 at 7:31 pm)Lek Wrote: You all should realize that what you are proposing is all idealistic words. When it comes down to it, if we really care abut our children we will each what we believe is best for them. It's not only just health and safety things, but what will benefit them overall. Do you really believe that a christian parent who believes that he possesses the only way to eternal salvation, will say "I know that if my child doesn't follow Christ he will be condemned to eternal death, but I'm not going to teach him that. If he doesn't become a christian, well that's great." If I think it's a bad thing to be a muslim, or whatever, then I'm going to tell them that.
Key words if we really care we would let them choose on their own. If a child wants to worship Thor and or any other type of being fine let them.
I believe you don't understand very well... for the christians, the danger is very real. It's like, if your 6 years old child wants to enter in a house and you know there's a serial children killer inside, you will tell your child "don't go! don't go!". You can't tell him, "well, it's your choice, do whatever you want!". So a christian who really fears the perils of hell for his child will inevitably do all he can to 'save' him. The fact that that's an imaginary danger is another thing. If you've got a mentally ill parent, something similar will happen: he may not let his child get out of the house because there's the god of thunder waiting outside to strike him!
