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Is it fair to brainwash religion in to kids?

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pootypooty:
The better question is, is it fair to brainwash culture into kids?

M Dogg™:

--- Quote from: Three 2 Get Ready on September 18, 2008, 08:58:00 AM ---Fair? Who's talking about fair? What's fair? Would it be fair to teach kids about science, as if that's not another paradigm - albeit a more "reasonable" one? If you wanted to play it fair and honest with young children, you'd have to start by telling them nothing's ever certain - not science, and certainly not religion. That would surely be a nice way to psychologically break them. Kids need desperately need context when they grow up. Grown ups can't do without either. A frame to use, so they can explore the world and make it their own. When you're young and you don't know anything, that's precisely what you need. Something to rely on, and to explain things.

It would be a true psychological horror for kids to start off as nihilists. Such children wouldn't have a chance to develop an identity or even any self-esteem. They would most likely die the first time they entered the street on their own. A truck is approaching? So what. Trucks don't exist, I don't exist, maybe that's not even a truck that's approaching. I might just sit here and see what happens. But even then, how can I ever know that what I think is happening really is happening?
You see how ridiculous such thoughts are, and how confusing they would be for a young child (not that they'd grasp any of it). For the sake of one's psychological wellbeing, everyone needs a paradigm to make sense of the world. You can't escape that. Kids need to be handed a paradigm.

Now whether that would be an atheist paradigm, preaching the values of science, objectivism, humanism, socialism, whatsoever, or any sort of religion on the other hand, that's merely a matter of taste. I'd personally say kids being raised into socialists is a far worse type of psychological abuse than kids being raised into Christians. What's worse: the thought of yourself as an individual being of no importance, not even to your own life, or the thought of being created by the ultimate goodness who ultimately hates you for something Adam and Eve did thousands of years ago, yet he does listen to and care about the prayers of you as an individual...? I'd say religion is the less cruel option there; the point is that religion is more stubborn because socialism is relatively new and has never been absolutely dominating. There has always been a reasonable doubt surrounding political paradigmas, whereas religion "is, because it is". From that perspective, religion might be more cruel to be raised in, because there's hardly any escaping it once you've really grown up in it. All doubts are taken away from you, which ultimately leads you into being a mindless follower. Religion numbs. Is that a horror worse than socialism's denial of the individual's existence?

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is that you Elvez???


--- Quote from: pootypooty on September 18, 2008, 03:59:41 PM ---The better question is, is it fair to brainwash culture into kids?

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yes... lol.... my son will be named Emiliano so what you think my opinion is... lol.

S P I C E:
NO ITS NOT FAIR!!  IT'S FLAT OUT ABUSE!!

.:DaYg0sTyLz:.:
Hell no it isnt fair. Id rather believe in Santa Clause. At least that muthafucka brought gifts...sometimes... :-\

jeromechickenbone:
I say hell no it shouldn't happen, but I also say that parents have the right to raise their children how they see fit.

I was raised catholic but I'm agnostic now.  I hate Church - just a bunch of fake ass, gossiping ass, show off your new clothes, bullshit. 

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