RE: The questionable morality of Christianity (and Islam, for that matter)
July 19, 2015 at 5:50 pm
(This post was last modified: July 19, 2015 at 5:55 pm by Regina.)
Both are bad, it doesn't matter which is worse because one being worse doesn't make the other one ok.
At any rate, I think making children fear Hell is a human atrocity, it's so abusive threatening a kid with Hell that it would actually piss me off if I witnessed it. On one hand I'm not totally against making up an afterlife for children to believe in until they are old enough to deal with death, children do think about death and really fear it. There should never be a Hell involved though and I think there comes a time when you have to be honest with them. Like Father Christmas, faeries, wizards and elves its ok for children to play make believe about it when they are kids but they have to move on at some point.
At any rate, I think making children fear Hell is a human atrocity, it's so abusive threatening a kid with Hell that it would actually piss me off if I witnessed it. On one hand I'm not totally against making up an afterlife for children to believe in until they are old enough to deal with death, children do think about death and really fear it. There should never be a Hell involved though and I think there comes a time when you have to be honest with them. Like Father Christmas, faeries, wizards and elves its ok for children to play make believe about it when they are kids but they have to move on at some point.
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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
