whats with born again christians brainwashing their kids with home schooling?

Question

They pound their heads with biblical stuff before they can even comprehend the meaning. Christians kids sound nuts when they repeat biblical things before they are old enough to know what they mean. For example a 5 year old child saying he found god because he just wanted more out of life.

Answer 1

Those cath-lickers are the guilty ones. They spank their male children and then force them to be the alter boy for priests. Then all heck breaks lose. (you know the rest)

http://www.usccb.org/nazipope-pee/mens

With love of them sweet cath-lick mens, cause imacatholictwo

Answer 2

Well i'm born again - and i always say it's not that we are more special than other Christians - it means we know our God and Creator personally. Each of us have a unique and special relationship with Him. We know how special we are to the Lord and the Lord knows personally how much we love Him. Also we have received the gift of salvation through believing in Jesus Christ as our personal Savior - this means we are reconciled back to God the Father after the union was broken through wrong doing or (when evil came in to the world). We know our salvation is secure. That's the only difference between saved and unsaved. Hope i've helped a little : ) Just to add: I agree with the poster below

Answer 3

I think it's sad when you hear any 5 year old repeat adult phrases, that they can't possibly, truly, understand. Not much difference when you hear them quote bigotry, killing people, hate mongering, or religious zealous.

Children just need to be allowed to be children, by way of experiencing the world around them. Yet I don't know how we change things when children are always going to ask honest curious questions, and depend on the response given to them by ignorant adults, or peers with parents of the same ilk.

I suppose we can only hope they will learn better as they grow up and experience more of the real world on their own. The only thing a 5 year old should want out of life is time to play and learn without parental interferance, and some nice cookies and hot cocoa.

Since reading many of these other posts, I have felt compelled to add my own experience to this quotient. I grew up in the south, with an extremely southern Baptist mother. She used to demand we all gather around the T.V. once a month to watch the Billy Graham Crusade. If we did not comply, we were grounded until the following month. I didn't mind watching or listening to this. The problem was that the entire time we sat listening to Rev. Graham, we simultaneously sat listening to my mother swearing like a sailor at my father, while sucking down her vodkas like a fish. I didn't know the meaning of the word, hypocrit, yet aware something was seriously was wrong with that picture. At 11 years old I developed strong feelings against her beliefs, because I felt, "If this is the way a Christian is, I want no part of it. I actually grew farther away from all her beliefs, simply because her actions spoke louder than her words. This type of life provoked me to move as far away as I could manage, as soon as I was able, just to rid myself of my surroundings.

We don't realize that we often push our children away from , or draw them towards our beliefs by the way they see us live. I believe that no matter what we say or try to teach, it is the way we truly live that exemplifies what most will choose to repell or emmulate from us. Luckily I found my way to the beliefs I can live by, and in some way, feel thankful to my mother now, for teaching me how NOT to be.

Answer 4

To a certain degree, parenting, Christian or no, is inherently brainwashing. You can't spend eighteen years taking care of someone without some of your prejudices, personal opinions, and attitudes seeping into their existence.

And kids will always parrot what their parents say, regardless of what it is the parents are saying. I've heard five-year-olds saying Bush is an idiot. Regardless of what you may think of the truth value of that statement, do you think a five-year-old has the knowledge or judgement to make that sort of statement and really understand what it means?

How many kids born of born-again fundamentalists grow up to be atheists? How many kids from non-churchgoing families end up pastors or priests? Not many, to be sure, but certainly some. We all have to overcome our childhoods to some degree.

Answer 5

Nah, see here's the rub... Those are the left have been brainwashing kids for years.... The Christians got tired of their children being taught perversion and pseudo science as being fact...

It's terrible to see a kid who's taught that it is not appropriate to even wonder if there is something wrong with Heather has two mommies... The same kid, can't read at level, math skills stink, their writing skills are illegible, and they think that a car that runs on unleaded petroleum and doesn't get 600 miles per gallon, their parents are the scum of the universe.

Meanwhile these same christians if they worked at this level of "excellence" would be fired. So they are saying, "Why should I pay my taxes for gross negligance?" I agree with the Christian parents.

Inner city parents ought to be SCREAMING at the administration... WHERE IS ALL THE MONEY GOING THAT WE ARE SPENDING???

I went to public school and I had teachers who showed up DRUNK. They couldn't fire her because she had tenure. I had teachers who could not teach coloring in coloring books... Great foundation for a working life. Incompetence and they were screaming for more money when they didn't deserve what they got.

Answer 6

Stereotyping at it's finest. Not all born again Christians are into home schooling and those that are do not brainwash. The system wants to take God out of school and if parents want their children to benefit from and receive some biblical learning, let them be.

Answer 7

What's with people submitting to brainwashing by the mass media? Don't they know that that will lead them to believe all kinds of lies, especially about Christians?

What's with people allowing their kids to be brainwashed, to have it pounded into their heads every day that they come from monkeys, that there is no God. Don't people see that this will one day lead to kids comitting mass murder in schools, in malls, in offices? I mean, if we are merely a mass of cells, why not just go crazy, kill whomever we want? Why not rape anyone we want, I mean, we are just animals, right?

Oh, that is exactly what is happening.

Darwin's theory, to those that are truly critical thinkers (try to stay with me here you that are a little slow on the evolutionary curve), leads to what? Survival of the fittest, right? Those that are the strongest, the fastest, the biggest, the meanest, those that can kill and control everyone else, those are the ones that will survive, those are the ones that will thrive in Darwin's world. Everything goes, and the strong survive.

And you want to criticize home schoolers? Get a life.

Answer 8

Hey, I'm a homeschooler! I don't think it's brainwashing.I think the 5 year old was just repeating what he heard an adult say. That sounds like little kids bearing their testimony in the LDS church. They just say what their parents are whispering in their ears. I don't think they can really understand what they are saying until they are much older. I want my children to come to know Jesus on their own, at their own speed.

Answer 9

Although I am not a fan of home schooling, religion runs a distant second to the power of brainwashing of popular culture.

A proper exposure to God and religion can help to counteract the real brainwashing that popular culture is constantly throwing at all of us in books, movies, TV, songs, advertisements, and even video games.

Popular culture is constantly bombarding us with intensive, not-so-forcible indoctrination, aimed at setting up worldly convictions and attitudes.

Popular culture comes at us from all directions including books, movies, TV, songs, advertisements, video games and even the Internet.

A few of the these immoral values include:
- Lust and Sex (outside of marriage)
- A disrespect for God and religion
- A disrespect for lawful authority
- A disrespect for our human dignity
- Envy, greed and consumerism
- Anger and Violence
- Drug abuse including smoking and alcohol
- Vanity, outside is more important than inside
- Prejudice and hate

I think that if we expose our children to all this immorality without the moral anchor of God and religion "until they can come to a conclusion of their own" then we would be unwise, irresponsible, and frequently too late.

With love in Christ.

Answer 10

hello

Funny topic, but i think a good "Brainwash" is nice to have

God only knows all the rubbish we are exposed from media, Womens magazines and trashy sitcoms, displaying poor values and teaching our younger generation that...

Its cool to have sex at a young age and flaunt your sexuality at age 13

Its cool to take drugs and so on.

God Knows his Children, such as the young kids you mentioned need to be nought about a little thing we forgot about...

Values, morals, good and evil, how to avoid significant issues in life, by following the teachings of the bible etc.

I Know i always need a good healthy 'Brainwash' from all the crap
that i am subjested to by this world. This is why i read the bible regularly

i would rather follow the seemingly 'foolish' values of Gods Word, then the nonsensical values of our world today

when was the last time you had a good "Brain-Wash" my friend,

Scrub a dub dub, its time for a scrub! Yay!

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Answer 11

i have heard the same things.
I dont think i even understood what life was about till after the age of 11. I got a little smarter for studying the scriptures on my own. Seeing Jesus Helped alot.
but 5 year olds have been known to do convert for their entire life and be prominent leaders in various religious organizations.
but im sure they had to study and change their opinions as they grew older.
But nevertheless most adults have to change their world veiws through the lense of the bible interpretations.

Beleive in God, Fear God, and do works of righteousness is WHAT COUNTs. Acts 10:34,35
on the subject of home schooling, many students are diligent in secular studies do achieve HIGHER scores, than public schools.

but indoctrination and false doctrine, and mind control does happen on both sides of the Creation/Evolution debate including in the home school arena.
Wicthcraft Covens are HIGH on the list of brainwashing their own children who have never gone to a public shcool in their life. The peer pressures and brain washing and influence of Wiccan Idolatry/religion is MORE unchecked in the public school system than christianity, in my opinion.