How long before the government steps in and considers it child abuse?

Question

With the government's intervention into matters regarding the so-called separation of church and state; how long will it be before it is considered child abuse to force your children to go to church?

First, to The Boot...I'm not a liberal, there are times I would make Reagan look like Gore.

To EarthAngel, I don't have any children.

Nothing weird about the question.

Maybe I should have asked, ..."when the liberal factions in our state governments.."

Answer 1

A lot of people have critisized you for this question, but I think it is a very good one. I don't think if it happened it would be anytime soon. I do believe during the few years before the tribulation period on earth that this could be a very big possibility. God Bless You.

Answer 2

They can't do that in a democracy. They can't control what goes on in individual homes. If that were the case, they would have had some sort of way of monitoring sodomy, and incest, and those that committed it, would be in jail. These things can't be proven unless reported by the victims or enough witnesses. How can they actually prove that the child is in fact being forced? The government rarely interferes in the way we choose to raise our children, unless it becomes a problem to others in the community or schools, where separation of church and state is enforced.

Answer 3

With all the attacks against Christianity, I can see your concern. I don't think this is a likely possibility as long as conservatives have control of 2/3 of the branches of government.

If this were ever to be brought before congress as a proposed law, I believe the vast majority of the citizens would be actively campaigning for a permanent (get the heck out of our personal lives) ruling.

Why would people think it is good to limit the tools available to teach our kids right and wrong? Some parents don't have these things built in from their own upbringing and the church offers a venue where the whole family can learn right and good behavior together. In this way the parents are held accountable to the ultimate goal of raising good productive kids by the kids. You either live what you preach or you teach what you live. There is no middle ground on this score.

http://judgeright.blogspot.com

Answer 4

I believe it has already happened. A boy took his parents to court over being forced to go to church, the case went all the way to the US Surpreme Court the boy won the case. It is against the US constitution to force your children to believe as you do.

Answer 5

Not in your life time. Children have very few rights and are expected to listen to their parents. It is customary for parents to take their children to Church. Until that changes a parent doing just that will never be questioned about it unless that parent choses to molest or sacrifice that child saying that it is a religious practice. Then and only then, the government would step in and protect the child.

Answer 6

It is not child abuse to make a child go to church or school or anywhere, unless you are talking about forcing a child to get into a stranger's car, a dark alley etc etc. Kids should go to church to learn about Jesus, so they don't grow up to be loser drug addicts, killers, child molesters etc etc. Kids should be educated to become the best they can be. You are a moron for asking this question. I hope that if you have kids someday, that you teach them well, but somehow I doubt you will. Have a nice day!

Answer 7

"There is no excuse for deceiving children. And when, as must happen in conventional families, they find that their parents have lied, they lose confidence in them and feel justified in lying to them." ~ Bertrand Russell

"Many orthodox people speak as though it were the business of sceptics to disprove received dogmas rather than of dogmatists to prove them. This is, of course, a mistake. If I were to suggest that between the Earth and Mars there is a china teapot revolving about the sun in an elliptical orbit, nobody would be able to disprove my assertion provided I were careful to add that the teapot is too small to be revealed even by our most powerful telescopes. But if I were to go on to say that, since my assertion cannot be disproved, it is intolerable presumption on the part of human reason to doubt it, I should rightly be thought to be talking nonsense. If, however, the existence of such a teapot were affirmed in ancient books, taught as the sacred truth every Sunday, and instilled into the minds of children at school, hesitation to believe in its existence would become a mark of eccentricity and entitle the doubter to the attentions of the psychiatrist in an enlightened age or of the Inquisitor in an earlier time." ~ Bertrand Russell, "Is There a God?" commissioned by, but never published in, Illustrated Magazine (1952: repr. The Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell, Volume 11: Last Philosophical Testament, 1943-68, ed. John G. Slater and Peter Köllner (London: Routledge, 1997), pp. 543-48, quoted from S. T. Joshi, Atheism: A Reader

"We are all 'teapot atheists'... I just happen to believe in one fewer teapots than you do." ~ Richard Dawkins, commenting on Bertrand Russell's 'teapot' vignette

Answer 8

The church is a farce children are two young to decide they should be educated not have religion drummed into them...
once they are old enough then they make their own minds up
when we were kids our parents let us decide we went to many religious services with different religions we grew up to respect people for whome they are and not what religion they practice

peeps here say how religous the president is i believe this
http://www.bushisantichrist.com/ to be true

Answer 9

True its not fair that children are forced into a religion before they have a chance to make an intelligent decision. Religion is a personal choice.

Believe nothing merely because you have been told it. . . . Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings - that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide.
Buddha

Answer 10

Get real. The opposite is more of a possibility with the religious lobby in our government. I don't believe that anyone should be forced to go to church.