(March 9, 2015 at 10:09 pm)Zenith Wrote: 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.
Actually, I know parents who literally forced their beliefs on their children, and not just simply teach. But maybe it's just the culture I come from.
To be fair, just saying "There's a guy living in the sky" seems harmless. But it would still be way better to say that you believe there's a guy living in the sky but that it is possible you could be wrong. It's more in how you say things to the child rather than what you actually believe.
Regarding Christians sincerely believing in a hell, even so, it is still abuse to instill in children's minds that there is such a thing as hell, especially when you know there's no evidence for such a place. Intentions don't always have to matter. Abuse is still abuse.
And to Lek, if foreskins are such a bad thing to humanity, why did God create a subset of humans with foreskins in the first place?
