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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Thai Buddhists will not easily take things lying down short of a demonized mind control zombied out state descending on them.
will religion be outlawed in the North American Union?
Just for clarity’s sake, it’s not end times prophecy - the verse is from Isaiah 5:20, and serves as a general warning against those who reject God’s Word. People have been rejecting God’s word and changing it to suit their own pleasures since Genesis.
“Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!”
My husband is reading an updated version of “Jerusalem Countdown”. He told me this morning there is a chapter in it where a woman from Lebanon was interviewed. She said Lebanon used to be like USA until the muslims took over and started killing Christians - even the ones who helped them obtain religious freedom.
Sure makes me wonder now that we have a muslim in the gov’t and how airports, colleges, etc. are making concessions for them to have a place to pray.
Oh I like sew compleatly agree with the article! The way parents force eating and bathing and clothes on children — disgraceful! And that whole education thing!
“Thai Buddhists will not easily take things lying down short of a demonized mind control zombied out state descending on them.”
Thai Buddhists have martial tradition. That is why. Buddhism declined in its once prominent domain in South-Central Asia for that lack of tradition. The first Buddhists were totally abstain from defending themselves and their society... all they cared was about individual enlightenment and self.
Same can be said of Christianity in the Middle East where it declined and got replaced. “Turn another cheek” sounds and feels good, but what good does it do when you have no cheek left to turn?
Faith by itself is never sufficient when dealing with aggressive competitor/enemy.
I think they are going to go after the Catholics too (actually they already are), from a purely objective point of view, the sheer size of the Catholic Church makes Catholicism a target.
In the end, I think it will be Catholics, Evangelicals who will stand united and be imprisoned together as we joyfully await our Savior's return.
You're not allowed to pontificate, only Catholics are allowed to pontificate! :-)
I suspect that they will have already identified RC and Episcopal CONGREGATIONS which are more BIBLICAL in thought, teaching and practice vs buying into and supporting the globalist one religion fits all idiocies.
There are a lot of liberal congregations in the traditional denominations. Those they will leave alone for a long time as such congregations help their cause.
Oh, Dear!
Uhhhh . . . so . . . would that be . . .
10 OUR FATHERS or 100 HAIL MARY’s?
Believe me, Pentecostals pontificate with the best of them.
Alternatively, you could just send ME a large check and I will get you some indulgences (or carbon credit if you prefer)!
The left began their full-blown assault on the Anglicans/Episcopalians about 30 years ago (ordination of women, openly homosexual clergy, etc.) and I think they did this because they viewed the Anglican Communion as a “test case” for the main war against Catholics.
From what I can tell, they are now using the global warming hoax to determine which Evangelical groups might be vulnerable.
Interesting.
Thanks.
If one reads that Scripture . . . and the newspapers today . . .
and then thinks that Scripture is not particularly referring to this era . . .
I guess I can’t think of much to add . . . mind boggling.
We live in benighted times.
Scripture is quite clear.
At some point—some think it will be at the 3.5 year point—into the Great Tribulation . . . at some point . . .
the only tolerated religion will be to worship the world leader [satan incarnate] as God—or die immediately for refusing to bow down to him or for refusing to take his mark [evidently the ID CHIP IMPLANT]
>The left began their full-blown assault on the Anglicans/Episcopalians about 30 years ago....<
The National Council of Churches just doing their job projecting us into the one world religion. /s
I left the Episcopal Church, rather it left me, 24 years ago.
But teaching homosexuality is of course considered chic.
The responsibility for the education of one's own children is one of the primary duties of any form of sentient life.
For a better understanding of individual responsibility as essential to all human progress: The Responsibility Factor.
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