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Originally posted by Corum
Doesn't your Son get religious education lessons in his school though, Boondock? Here in the U.K virtually EVERY school has these lessons, they learn about it from around 3 years old.
Originally posted by VelvetSplash
It's really what some people call programming, conditioning or brain-washing, and one reason why religion has been such a powerful tool for so long, because it digs it's hooks in nice and early.
The kind of ideas that are conveyed in religion to very young children, mold and shape a psyche, and because they are put across at such a young age, they are very powerful, and make lasting impressions, sometimes life-long, often regardless of any other belief systems or ideas that might be adopted later on in life.
Children are interested in complex subjects from a very early age - they will ask all kinds of questions about sex, death and life with free abandon - I think we should give honest answers to their questions, not confuse them with half-baked fairy-tales and lies that will retard their inquisitive minds.
I would like to think if a child of mine asked me 'What happens when we die'.... I'd say 'Well, nobody knows for sure, but a lot of people have lots of different ideas'.
Originally posted by Corum
Doesn't your Son get religious education lessons in his school though, Boondock?
Originally posted by SpeakerofTruth
Originally posted by Corum
Doesn't your Son get religious education lessons in his school though, Boondock?
What? You can't even say God in the schools here without someone wanting to file some sort of a lawsuit.
Originally posted by SpeakerofTruth
Few people here are probably even aware of what the original schools did... There were bible lessons in the old schools..
Should there be now? Well, I tell you what, take a good look at society and you tell me.
Originally posted by MajorMalfunction
I don't want my children exposed to religion before they can think and choose for themselves. I think it's abusive, because when they are small, they operate on magical thinking. If they see adults doing this "stuff" every week, and talking to an invisible friend, and all that stuff, they'll grow up thinking that is the only way they can be.
Once kids hit the age of reason, around 7 to 9, then they're capable of thinking it out for themselves more. I was raised secularly, went seeking on my own with my family's permission at around age 8, and figured out pretty quick it was contradictory, often cruel in the messages, and nonsensical.
My ex knows how I feel about this, and so he's started talking to my daughter about heaven and getting her DVDs with religious messages on them even though he's a lapsed Catholic and hasn't set foot in a church or prayed the entire 11 years I've known him. He's abusing my kid to get to me, using religion to do it.
Kids shouldn't be exposed to it until they're older. My two cents.
Originally posted by MajorMalfunction
My ex knows how I feel about this, and so he's started talking to my daughter about heaven and getting her DVDs with religious messages on them even though he's a lapsed Catholic and hasn't set foot in a church or prayed the entire 11 years I've known him. He's abusing my kid to get to me, using religion to do it.
Originally posted by SpeakerofTruth
Originally posted by MajorMalfunction
My ex knows how I feel about this, and so he's started talking to my daughter about heaven and getting her DVDs with religious messages on them even though he's a lapsed Catholic and hasn't set foot in a church or prayed the entire 11 years I've known him. He's abusing my kid to get to me, using religion to do it.
"Abusing?" Okay, I can appreciate you not wanting your kid to have any hope in life, or whatever, but I think to consider spiritual beliefs as a form of "abuse" is rather absurd.