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."
My guess is that Judaism and Christianity will be the ONLY targets.
How early, if at all, should we allow the state to have access to our children?
Please explain to me again why we are still in the United Nations.
We seem to be going down hill very fast lately.
>> Any Blue Helmets attempting to implement something like what this ockroach proposes in this country will be zeroed in at 300 yards by tens of millions of individual gun owners...not to mention our military that would never go along with it IMHO. <<
Nonsense. They’ve been doing it piecemeal for the last 50 years. And we keep re-electing the bastards who let them (Clinton, Bush, Kennedy, McCain, Reid, McConnell, Dole, Pelosi, etc.)
Strategic analysts have determined that suicide bombing as a method of war is futile and largely ineffective.
Besides, the really good ones died during practice.
>Some things are so disgusting that I don’t even know where to start.<
The truth is that sending a child to public school today is rank child abuse.
Until we get back to the Bible and it’s reliable road map for life, we will only see Evil take over more and more.
If the people choose not to see, the people will no longer be free. It is as simple as that.
I have a granddaughter who was saved when she was four. She witnessed about Jesus to all her little Christian pre-school friends. When she was in public high school, she conducted Bible study in the cafeteria at noon, with a sizable following. God bless her. She is now a senior in college, but she’s had such a solid, moral background that I am not worried about her. God is Good.
Parents, if this be child abuse - go for it!
US out of the UN
Evict them, take the building (we paid for it) and auction off to the highest AMERICAN bidder.
Unless it’s Islam that’s being taught, no doubt.
Oh I know where to start with this guy and his ilk, but it's illegal.
Unbelievable! Words escape me!
Sez who?
Well, one religion certainly does, but that's the one religion they will be sure to make an exception for.
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Sez me.
Personally Alouette I think Islam is only religioin that teach the kiddies how to hate
Not Chrisintiy or Judaism
“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.
Which of course interferes with the states indoctrination. Sound positively Stalinist.
Exactly... before the government is able to that's for sure!!!
Give Lev Leviev a chance to buy it. He is building religious schools all over Russia.
So many do not want to believe in the NWO agenda....well this, to me, is pretty good evidence.
The UN has long been a communist and socialist front and its once more proving who is behind all this.
Someday they will all stand before HIM to answer for their apostacy.
George Orwell was right.
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