Well, how about it? Isn't teaching your child your beliefs as fact a form of indoctrination? Is taking children to a house of worship worse or better than not taking them?
2006-10-16 09:26:39 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
"train up a child in the way they should go, and when they are old they wont depart from it." Proverbs
its like saying if my kids only want to eat candy should i make them eat other food-why not help them and in a good church they teach the bible respect for God and parents and help em get Jesus into their heart to have the power to do right-with lots of childrens programs with happy kids-not 9 year old muslims girls that a 40 year old like Mohamad would be waiting to marry like he did Aisha.
salvation is free but religion can cost you everything.
2006-10-16 09:35:14 · answer #1 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Is teaching a child to use a fork indoctrination? How about saying "please" and "thank you?"
Every parent gets the privilege of indoctrinating their children. Then when adolescence kicks in, the children get the privilege of throwing it all back in their parents faces.
And still the world seems to muddle along, even with such a set up.
2006-10-16 09:29:57 · answer #2 · answered by NHBaritone 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Eh? Depends. Are you forcing them to go so that they willl be indoctrinated? Or are you offering them a perspective? I think I might take my children to all sorts of religious services so that they get a broad scope of humanity and learn to accept everyone.
2006-10-16 09:29:31 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Is not teaching them your language, social customs and norms the same? Is this wrong?
Is teaching our children the language, customs and norms of their heavenly Kingdom any different that teaching them the same for the kingdom/society they're living in here on earth? If you believe in Truth, then not to teach them is like forcing them to live blind and mute!
Peace,
MoP
2006-10-16 09:34:50 · answer #4 · answered by ManOfPhysics 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
well i think that people that force their kids to believe. start them young teaching them that god is the truth, that the bible is a fact is nothing more then brainwashing the child. i dont think god really wanted a bunch of robots who believe only because it was the only thing they were taught. they believe because they have nothing else to believe in. its the only truth they ever knew... why would god want people to believe for those reasons.. wouldnt he instead want people to come to him on their own free choice? isnt that why god gave us free will?
2006-10-16 09:29:13 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
i do no longer think of there is something incorrect with letting young ones have self assurance interior the teeth Fairy or Santa Claus or the Easter Bunny. And alongside those comparable strains, i think that is ok to permit infants to have self assurance interior the religion of your determination. what's very important is whilst the youngster says, "Daddy the youngsters in kindergarten say there is not any Santa Claus and that i think them. you're quite Santa are not you Daddy?" At this factor the person Daddy ought to declare, "it quite is actual son, i'm Santa; you figured it out!" and that's the tip of it. None of this rubbish approximately going to Hell in case you stop to have self assurance or the youngsters at school are mendacity or Santa is actual and in case you do no longer shape up you will no longer get to any extent further presents at Christmas time! anybody ought to graduate from faith in simple terms like they graduate from a thought in Santa. And whilst that occurs, enable your infants the honour of listening to, "specific son, you're superb. God has had a purpose in all our lives and now it quite is time for commencement into the actual worldwide." in simple terms because of fact Santa and God stop to exist, does no longer mean the techniques and values they have imparted ought to vanish, they do no longer. yet to proceed to ideas wash the greater youthful ideas into adulthood is, for my area, a tragic thank you to cut back your infants's ability to discover and learn and enhance. And specific, in case you do no longer enable infants to graduate at a time it quite is suited (and that relies upon of each man or woman case) then "toddler abuse" is in all probability an excellent term for stifling growth.
2016-10-19 12:26:11 · answer #6 · answered by huegel 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
First of all, God does not hate atheists. They either hate God or they're just not interested.
Anyway... I don't think it is wrong if the religion is nonviolent and teaches tolerance. If it teaches hatred, intolerance or misogyny, then it's wrong.
2006-10-16 09:37:58 · answer #7 · answered by NolaD 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not if it's true. The fact that you acknowledge a standard of right and wrong, presupposes a standard-Giver.
2006-10-16 09:35:31 · answer #8 · answered by John 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes, its indoctrination, and a terrible thing to do to a child. boring too.
2006-10-16 09:28:35 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I believe that it is good to show them what YOU believe, but also show them other aspects of different religions and let THEM decide for themselves what THEY want to follow.
2006-10-16 09:29:53 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋