I Think Indoctrinating Children With Religion Is Child Abuse Stories of Experiences

There are so many reasons why I consider indoctrinating kids with religion is child abuse. I chose, however, to make this story about only one of those reasons. One that has affected many children growing up in religious households. One...

Parents force their children into countless things because as children their own parents did it to them, so they continue the cycle be it right or wrong.

Someone made me think about this a little more after a lengthy discussion about...

There's a character on this board that has hijacked the discussion that should be easy to find if you track the threads on this. And I've been banned from his precious thread. Apparently he's the Socrates of the pub that only agrees...

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I teach my son:

“YOU heard that it was said, ‘You must love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ However, I say to YOU: Continue to love YOUR enemies and to pray for those persecuting YOU; that YOU may prove yourselves sons of...

A clever YouTube poster left this comment on the thread of this video : "there's somethin you don't see everyday, a priest makin some sense"
And I agree.
Never thought I´d see the day but Canon David Jennings clearly stated what I...

and I abuse my children.Because I teach them the word of God.oh my goodness D:I should be destroyed.

This is wrong on so many levels   !!!

I have no words.
This is beyond sad :-(

Might I offer an interesting ponder?

God and the Universe are inseparable. This is the All-Nothing which is always the same-never the same and indistinguishable.

When one descends to the level of manifestation of god. Then we have God...

I am not a religious person myself, but I respect everyone's beliefs as long as they respect mine too and believers have come to them free. However, this is not the case when you indoctrinate children. People who do that are abusing of...

Benjamin Franklin: The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason:Voltaire: Those who believe absurdities will excuse atrocities.Sigmund Freud: Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in...

I was raised as a Christian, my father brought me to church every Sunday with him. I never told anyone that I went to church, because I didn't really believe in it.
I still remember the day my father brought me to church at four years...

Nobody believes in God. People who prefer not to think about things often have “faith” in God; faith being defined as belief without reason. You can be conditioned or programmed to have faith in just about anything. When people say...

I was uprooted from Portage, Indiana to be forced to grow up ostracized and shunned by many of my peers in Provo/Orem Utah. I was one of those long haired catholic boys who had to go to public school when our Catholic school closed due...

I used to be so religious. Like hardcore bible thumping catholic guilt religious. Over time I started to question the logic of many of the religious teachings. My girlfriend in high school (who is now my wife) had alot to do with...

I explored the options when I was young, and found little to induce any interest. I called myself Christian for a while, I called myself Pagan for a while, now I consider myself antitheist. I feel a lot of my freedom was granted to me...

During my upbringing, I was raised in 3 separate Baptist churches. Theists would argue that my atheism is a result of not being exposed to "the word", but I actively sought out Christian knowledge, listened to Christian reasoning for...