American kids should be freed from religion.?

Question

At what age are American children brainwashed about god and religion? When they grow up you would think they would know there isnt such a thing as god and religion is the evil of all wars ?

Answer 1

I think a lot of children are indoctrinated from birth. Here's the thing, though: It seems unfair to me to force your faith on a child. It seems to be better for everyone if there is no religion in school or government, and that is just on a basic freedoms level. What if there was a state-mandated religion, and you were in the wrong one? What then? I think that children should be free to learn about religion and spirituality, but never, ever forced to it. And with the keeping religion out of schools, I should clarify. I have no problem with extracurricular clubs, elective courses, or even a moment ofsilence at the beginning of the day. I don't care if children pray throughout the day, as long as it isn't disruptive. I just don't want a teacher to be able to tell my children what they think the true religion is, or having creationism part of science class. My kids kind of lean toward not believing in God, and that's fine.


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Marcia L. is clueless.

Answer 2

I think you still have some growing up to do.

"Religion is the evil of all wars" - where did you get that from?
How many wars can you list that have been purely about religion?

Can you tell the difference between those who profess to be religious and those who actually are?

We can see how the terrorists use the name of islam to justify their misguided purposes and the Jews and Christians have done likewise. Politicians/Monarchs have often flirted with religion on/off to suit their own purposes but can we really take them to be religious?

You must be really confused if you think that despite the education standards/availability in the US that there can people who can't make up their own minds.

I believe that the actual fact is that children are brainwashed into believing half-baked evolutionary theories which even Darwin himslef admitted was flawed and did not provide all answers.

Show me some humans who have evolved different organs - sure we should have some of these if evolutionary theory was correct?

Show me some humans who are still evolving from monkeys?

Answer 3

Actually, the public school system is quite a good brainwashing agent, but it works the other way. Evolution, which is a wobbly theory at best, is masqueraded as absolute truth before children. Science is tipping largely to the favor of creationism, but you won't hear about those discoveries in your science textbooks. Actually, this is just another religion. It's called Secular Humanism. They've worked 'underground' for a long time, but they have ordained ministers, get religious tax exemption, have their own Humanist Manifesto, and even have worship centers where they can be their own God. American children are brainwashed about religion all through school and by the media, but it's not Christianity. It's the intolerant religion of humanism that is based of shaky grounds of evolution.

Answer 4

From the get go...how else do many end up believing so readily, they know no different. I think it's a good idea for kids to be able to make up their own minds. I was allowed to, but the amount of "religion" I did see didn't change anything. I am who I was born to be.

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P.S. Only idiots demand that atheism is a religion. Or those who's minds are too small to imagine that maybe it's just possible that some people can actually NOT have a religion or belief. A religion is NOT what you believe about "god," it is an organized group of people who share their beliefs and agree to follow the beliefs and ideas of those who tell them what to believe. Figure it out people, we (the non religious) have no organized groups, no belief system, it is LACK there of and takes no conscious effort to have "faith" in. In other words while it may mean a type of belief, it is actually non belief, therefore not actually a belief system and definitely NOT a religion.

Marcia L, your a prejudice b*tch and one of the types that just keeps the world deep in it's problems. How about letting US speak for US for once instead of people like you telling us who we are? Btw, MOST non religious people HAVE decent morals, standards, and values. Guess what, most bring their kids up to be decent people. Most wish to have a good impact on the world and want the world to be a better place. It does not ALL always have to come from religion unless people have a shallow prejudiced mind like you.

Sorry. Rant over.

Answer 5

I'm shocked that so many people can look around at this universe and not believe there was a Creator. The sun, moon and stars shout His glory. All life on earth didn't evolve from pond scum, but was created by a loving God. Let me tell you a story. I have this nice watch I'm wearing. If I told you that a team of engineers designed this watch, and some techs assembled it, and then the manufacturer sold the watch to a wholesaler who sold it to a store, where I bought it, you would believe that story. But that's not what happened. Billions and billions of years ago, some atoms were floating around in space, and some cosmic wind or something blew them together. And over millions of years, these atoms formed into a glass dial, and some formed into a stainless steel case, and still others formed into numbers, and some formed into a battery to power my watch. The more I go on about this story, the more absurd it gets. You know the watch needs a designer. But yet you believe that the wrist upon which it rests evolved by accident. It's never too soon to tell children about Jesus Christ, the Creator and Substainer of the world, and the Way to eternal life

Answer 6

I grew up in a st rick Christian home and now that I have left I realise that they are an awful lot of different religions out there claiming to be the one and only true one with many followers.... so why was Christianity right? I am still struggling and searching for answers to this day to find out what I want to believe not just what I was told was true. I think that without my Christian background however I wouldn't have had the morals I do now, nor would I be so open and understanding of religion, all religions because I have felt the power the mind can have over you. No I really no longer believe in a one true God but I do feel that religion is a choice... at least in America... and no one can force you to believe, so as you grow older and start to have a mind of your own you can figure it out for yourself and believe whatever you need to believe to live a happy and full life. Yes religion does see to be a bit of an unnecessary evil but if it weren't there we would find other things to divide us as we already have-- color, languange, side of town you live on, income.... so many things to fight about.

Answer 7

I agree about not brain washing them with religion. But who are you to stop a child from learning about Jesus Christ. He said himself 'Let the little children come unto me.'
I've been in the states, and I know many Americans. I think its awful that it is illegal to talk about God in schools. America is supposed to have 'freedom of speech'. Yeah when it chooses what people can say and do. I even knew of a young boy that got into trouble with the principle for talking with his friend about Jesus. That's not freedom. The kids deserve to hear and understand things about who God is.
I teach in schools in England and I teach the Bible. When I start most of the kids are groaning and moaning, but after a few weeks all and I mean all of the kids are really enjoying learning from the Bible. Is this brain washing? No of cause not. Some of the teachers in the schools aren't Christians, yet they allow this to take place.
Nobody should prevent any child learning about God, and if school is the place then all the better.
You know putting Christianity back into the schools in America might actually stop the violence that some of the schools have problems with.
I know your supposed to be an atheist (although there is no such thing) but who you think you are wanting to stop any child learning about God?

Answer 8

I believe that all children, from a young age, need to learn about a multitude of belief structures. No child should be forced to attend church or any other religious institution against their will.

Perhaps instead of church on Sundays or mosque on Fridays etc, children should be sent to a religious diversity class so that they may have a full understanding of everything that is out there.

Everyone here needs to do a little research on the Anabaptists. They were part of the Protestant Reformation and they believed that such a choice as belief cannot be made until adulthood. They only baptized adults, who came to them truly having made the choice to believe.

Answer 9

This is America where you have freedom of religion, everyone is free to practice and believe any religion they want. And to many people they don't believe that it's a made up religion, they believe with all their heart in God and religion. When parents teach their kids about religion, they believe it's something good and there's nothing wrong with it. You could make the same statement about you brainwashing children about there being no God and that religion is bad. It's your right to believe what you believe and it's their right also.

Answer 10

American children, like children everywhere, are taught their parents or guardians religion and moral values. Whether it is Christianity of some flavor, Islam, Judaism, Buddhist, Hindu, Agnostic, Atheist or any other. If you do not believe in a god, it doesn't mean there isn't one, just as it doesn't mean there is because I believe in one. As to wars, religion is the EXCUSE for wars, but never the reason for them. If you truly look at history, you will see they are always started to gain land, power, or both. Therefore the evil of war is greed, not religion.

Answer 11

There are functional limits to what percentage little ones a unmarried woman can produce in spite of out birth control. For one element, there is the 9 month being pregnant. That fairly a lot takes you right down to at least one youngster a three hundred and sixty 5 days. After your 20s, fertility begins to decline. also, the more advantageous young ones you've, the harder that is to discover the time and privateness to artwork on having more advantageous. as well to that, religions like Catholicism which have problems with birth control also typically have possibilities. they're no longer that efficient compared to birth control, yet that they'd reduce down on the sheer form of little ones. And, for sure, no longer all and distinctive in a predominantly Catholic united states is so religious as all that...