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To: MarineBrat
..he argues that rearing children in a religious tradition amounts to child abuse.

I've got to agree with this statement. Raising children this way amounts to brainwashing. Real life ends up trumping this kind of upbringing and ends up exposing 'children' to the realities of this world. The child ought to be told by his parents that his parents are raising him up in a way that they BELIEVE is right, not that they KNOW is right. Children ought to be told/made aware of the fact of the world as it exists...not just as part of some kind of fantasy myth.

92 posted on 01/05/2007 1:44:05 AM PST by Swordfished
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To: Swordfished
Children ought to be told/made aware of the fact of the world as it exists...not just as part of some kind of fantasy myth.

Yes: male + female = baby.

This is what these types of people really hate.

They are specifically attacking the Christians, but Moses wasn't a Christian. Christians are their politically correct proxy because they cannot openly attack the Jews. They, like the National Socialists, are at war with the book of Genesis more than anything else.

94 posted on 01/05/2007 4:07:48 AM PST by Sir Francis Dashwood (LET'S ROLL!)
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To: Swordfished
[MB>..he argues that rearing children in a religious tradition amounts to child abuse.

[SF>I've got to agree with this statement. Raising children this way amounts to brainwashing...

Raising kids in a religious tradition is brain washing? I'd sure hate to have to go through life thinking like that. I would far rather my children believe in God than helieving in the trash presented to them in our "modern" secular society every day. I've always told any of those friends of mine (we're all astronomers, so there's several of them) who claim to be athiest that they're really not atheistic because, as any good scientist, they don't deny the possibility of God.

I tell them that they're really agnostics, to which some of them make some resistance, but yet like anyone with a reasonable amount of sense, they can't deny that God "may" be a reality, and that teaching children moral values through a system of religion can be a very powerful tool for the advancement of a content society. It has never much mattered to me what they "say" they believe in, as much as what they honestly hope for. And nobody I know hopes to die, rot, and have that be the end of it.

Also, to those who present the most resistance to the acceptance of God as a system of belief, I point out to them that even if there isn't a God, I would still prefer a life lived as if there is a God, because as far as I'm concerned my right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness comes from my creator and none else. As soon as I accept that my rights come from Man's government then I accept that my rights are not my own and can wax and wane based on the whims of the voting block that defines government.

If the voters vote in a democracy to say that you're a slave, is it wrong? If there's no God, and you accept that there's no God, then you have no right to claim right nor wrong. I say there's a God, God or no God!

105 posted on 01/05/2007 7:53:53 AM PST by MarineBrat (My wife and I took an AIDS vaccination that the Church offers.)
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