Teaching Religion to Children = Child Abuse
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"Stuffing immature minds full of dogma when they havent the means to sort through it critically damages the developing psyche. No amount of post-adult reason ever completely liberates the subconscious from all that ecclesiastical baggage.
I believe teaching children is abusive because it creates confusion and discourages critical thought. Further, it fosters guilt, which is particularly destructive, because it remains in the subconscious long after the reasons for it are recognized and understood."
The full text can be found here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifUu5-eYMtI
"Stuffing immature minds full of dogma when they havent the means to sort through it critically damages the developing psyche. No amount of post-adult reason ever completely liberates the subconscious from all that ecclesiastical baggage.
I believe teaching children is abusive because it creates confusion and discourages critical thought. Further, it fosters guilt, which is particularly destructive, because it remains in the subconscious long after the reasons for it are recognized and understood."
The full text can be found here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifUu5-eYMtI
Any philosophy is just your view of things and you stamp that onto your children, and religion is an easy target right now so obviously people will say "abuse". But they're just stamping their own philosophy onto their children. Then you could also call people out for teaching children to "be kind to one another" etc.
Teaching ANY kind of philosophy to children (be kind to others, father christmas, tooth fairy, be generous, etc.) could also be construed as abuse in that case. In the end you'd have to teach your child nothing at all.