Indoctrinating Children in Religion

[dyresand]

Yeah, indoctrination is not the worst thing they can do to their kid, but it's still wrong and I think it's worth fighting to educate parents not to do it.

They can teach their kids their own beliefs about God all day long, if they own them as such. It's just theists have a nasty habit of not understanding the difference between their beliefs and facts. It also becomes a lot harder for the parent if they have to say, "I believe you will go to Hell little Johnny if you don't believe in Jesus." It's much easier to just pass the responsibility onto God and state it as "fact". And since the parent probably wants to use threats of hell as a parenting tool in place of actual parenting, these threats would sound ridiculous if phrased as beliefs.

The thing is a secular house holds tend to have happier children than a theistic one. So its better to allow a child to choose and not to choose for them. Atheists are not bad people by any stretch of the imagination every group has bad people but looking at it you really shouldn't get upset if your child doesn't choose to follow your own religion or turn atheist and get discombobulated over it because there is stories of parents kicking their kids out because they turned atheist.