RE: The questionable morality of Christianity (and Islam, for that matter)
July 20, 2015 at 3:41 pm
(July 20, 2015 at 3:35 pm)robvalue Wrote: Sure, some of our bias is going to come off. I would hope good parents would try to minimize this, and raise children who think for themselves as much as possible. If you have good ideas to pass on, you should be able to do so in a reasoned manner, after giving them the tools they need in order to think. Jamming a load of shit up their arse knowing they haven't reached this stage is the problem. I could easily argue religion is not suitable for children anyhow.
But I suppose I'm talking about people who see the world in pretty much the opposite way to me.
Why? Do you think children, despite lacking full development, are completely incapable of understanding ideas? Surely not - Most children can understand basic stuff - You can teach them all you believe and support, and I don't see why a good parent should do otherwise - The problem in these kind of threads is that the only reason we call something indoctrination is because we don't agree with it. Does anyone consider teaching kids that murder is wrong some sort of "indoctrination"? If so, why? We basically tell them that murder is wrong and we don't allow them to accept the moral conclusion that murder is right. It makes sense for every parent to teach kids what they believe in. I'm sorry if this makes me old fashioned, but I abhor any law or idea that wants to strip parents from rights to teach their children, I'm a proponent that kindergarten and school are complementary when it comes to morality and basic ideas, not fundamental.
It is easy for me to support the right to teach what I agree with, but I honestly think I should support the right to teach your kids what I'm completely against. If you want to raise your kid a nazi, go ahead, I'm not going to stop you, it's not illegal to be a nazi anyway - What you can't do is to force them to agree with you, specially after a certain age (usually 16) when the law provides greater autonomy.
Children are capable of learning about politics, religion, sports, morality - They're smarter than we think,as long as we don't teach them super complicated complex problems.
Honestly, I think we all end up supporting what our society generally supports or what the west (for westerns) supports, if we were born someplace else we would be supporting different moral principles. Even if we don't believe, we still agree with the majority of moral principles society has, it's not like we invent our own morality out of the blue.
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you