Parents who indoctrine their children into a religious faith should be labelled 'abusers'.
Considering we live in a time where rational scientific experiments are destroying the myth of primitive nomads, is it not child abuse that some parets still bring their children up in seclusion, teaching them that 'Science is the Devil's whore', and that homosexuality and abortion, essentially private acts, should carry the death penalty, or at least are abhorrent, and should incur abuse and segregation?
Surely filling a 10 year old's developing brain with images of helffire, and insects burrowing into their rectum ifn they do not obey the psychic psychotic delinquant in the sky, is akin to the parent themseles threatening to kill the child for disobediance.
Surely labelling achild by the religion of its parents is abuse. We should not be given to say 'That is a Republican child' or 'That is a Ultra Nationalist child', so how can we say 'That is a christian child' or 'That is a muslim child'.
They should.
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It's the parent's choice.
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Religion is a touchy subject and since most religious families more or less, even if unknowingly, force there religion on there children. Therefor its far to common to be changed at this point. I do believe it to be wrong to influence your children's search of spiritual enlightenment but there really isn't much to do about it. Side: They should.
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Ok, thouh I admit that most religious families genuinely believe that they are saving their kids from damnation, through bringing them up to stand on street corners with signs saying 'god hates the homosexual abomination', or some other rubbish, that doesn't mean the state shouldn't take action. The state would intervene if a pedophile uncle was sexually grooming the child, even if he believed that he was helping the child mature into the world of relationships. Why should not the state protect children from the constant thoughts of the threat of hellfire? It is physical abuse, as the child's neurological patterns will include greater than average dopamine levels, to try to compensate for the fear the parent has instilled. Side: They should.
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First of all, religion is not a bad thing. The parents genially believe that they are doing the right thing by introducing their children into their faith. And really, what's bad in believing in something/someplace better? Sigmund Freud might have believed that religion is a mass neurosis, a psychological response to deep trauma. However, I strongly disagree. Religion is as much a benign belief as is the belief that the sky is blue. Most parents are fine if their child decides that they don't believe the same thing as their parents, and those who don't...those who control their children's beliefs? Those who wave banners and stalk gay people, they are abusers. But then so is the atheist who comes home drunk every night and beats his son up. Side: It's the parent's choice.
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