Posted on 06/18/2007 2:36:09 PM PDT by wagglebee
NEW YORK, June 18, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Religious education is a form of child abuse and violates the rights of children, contends a thesis to be considered by secular humanists at the Center for Inquiry's congress in Beijing this October.
The Center for Inquiry, an organisation recently awarded special consultative status as an NGO at the United Nations (UN) will consider the proposals of Innaiah Narisetti, the chairman of the Center for Inquiry's India chapter, that portend the next stage in the assault on the rights of parents to educate their children.
Nasiretti called the influence of religion a "severe shortcoming in the global campaign to protect children" and a contributor to child abuse saying, "In one form or another, all religions violate the rights of children."
"Such abuse begins with the involuntary involvement of children in religious practices from the time they are born," says Narisetti. "All religions, through ritual, preaching, and religious texts, seek to bring children into day-to-day religious practice."
"This gives holy books and scriptures, as well as those who teach them, an early grip on the developing minds of young people, leaving an indelible impression on them," said Narisetti, calling Sunday schools, madrassas, or Jewish or Hindu temples, centers of indoctrination for children.
Nasiretti's proposal would reject the long-recognized inherent rights of parents to educate and provide for their children's religious instruction in favor of regulating children's exposure to religious influence by world governments abiding by the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.
"The time has come to debate the participation of children in religious institutions," continues Narisetti. "While some might see it as a matter better left to parents, the negative influence of religion and its subsequent contribution to child abuse from religious beliefs and practices requires us to ask whether organized religion is an institution that needs limits set on how early it should have access to children."
The UN forum proposed by Narisetti would debate the "pros and cons" of religion on children and determine whether religion contributes to global child abuse.
"The UN must then take a clear stand on the issue of the forced involvement of children in religious practices; it must speak up for the rights of children and not the automatic right of parents and societies to pass on religious beliefs, and it must reexamine whether an organization like the Vatican should belong to the UN," stated Narisetti.
"Until this happens, millions of children worldwide will continue to be abused in the name of religion, and the efforts made by the UN will continue to address the symptoms but not the disease."
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You know, we should foward this to all those rioting Muslims. They’d probably get a kick out of it.
Start by finding your gun.
The godless are conferring in Beijing, and decide that religion is poisoning children.
Something is wrong with that picture.
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Nasiretti called the influence of religion a "severe shortcoming in the global campaign to protect children" and a contributor to child abuse saying, "In one form or another, all religions violate the rights of children."Nasiretti has a point. At least with respect to Islam.
Unbeknownst to millions, the NGOs role in UN politics is beginning to resemble their role in the Duma of the old Soviet Union. I believe they had about one third of the votes.
We need to start puliing out of this old decrepit agency and go our own way. This is getting ridiculous.
I agree. Religious education IS child abuse -— if the religion is Islam.
It is said that shortly before the end good will be called evil, and evil, good.
I am dumbfounded.........
As a direct result of ‘religious’ education if the religion is Islam, the child may one day find himself splattered on the ground by how own doing. How is that NOT abuse ?
All of us are influenced by religion. If it isn’t the religion of our parents it will be the religion of someone else.
Tell that to the Mooj, if you’re so brave and sure of yoru convictions.
Get back to me after the fatwah...
Wow! Life without God sparks this kind of thinking, I guess.
I was just about to ping you personally!
He fails to mention in all his talk about abuse how it was totalitarian, marxists governments that were responsible for 100 million deaths in the last century, not religion, and certainly not Christian religions in America...which, IMHO, is what this would ultimately be targeted at.
The one negative side effect of freedom — some people just don;t use their liberty in a manner that we agree with.
Which is why God (in his mercy) has given us lots of weapons that make really large glowing radioactive craters where we choose to use them.
Now, if would answer our prayers and give us leaders with some stones, all would be well...
YIKES!!!!!!!!!
I better get to church and pray for these people!
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