Yet another religious cult raided

[eppie]

You seem to have only the basic understanding of the concept of Hell. You will also tell your children not to do some things, correct? Like "Don't kill people" or "Don't steal". In the Darwinian survival of the fittest paradigm, if you can dominate your peers it is success. The biological urge to propagate your genes is success, and whatever means you take to insure that is survival. Your children will ask you "Why not kill, dad?", "Why not cheat and steal to get ahead?" and your answer will be based on what? On a social theory? It is weak.

I was teached not to kill and steel, 'just because it is not right'....and that is enough for children, once they get older they will find out why you don't do certain things, and at that time it is their private business.
It is ridiculous to state that children should be aware of some theory when they are young.

Yes, I know the answer. You used the word Brainwashing in the wrong context. To assert that people that teach religion are exerting methods of coercive persuasion is absurd. Just as it would be absurd to suggest that all university professors are are exerting methods of coercive persuasion. To teach something you are against is Brainwashing, but to teach something you are for is learning. That is why you have no words.

And that is my point you should not brainwash them. If you think the prospect of going to hell if a 7 year old does something wrong, and the prospect of getting a bad grade at university if somebody refuses to learn his english or maths 101 are both brainwashing are the same than I don't think it makes much sense to discuss more about this. (and at least at my university we were tought to think for ourselves)

Religion should be something spiritual for adults that cannot cope with certain parts of life as it is, it is nothing that you have to teach (tell) a child. Juts like you don't tell a chil;d to go to war and kill members of another tribe, you don't tell yoyur child that god wants him to blow himself up in a market full of americans and you don't tell a child she needs to have babies with a 50 year old guy.