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."
That would be great, but our leaders (GOP and DNC) want what the UN wants. They just differ on how to accomplish it.
Some things are so disgusting that a “barf alert” would be redundant.
Islam will probably have an exclusion from this rule of religion.
“My guess is that Judaism and Christianity will be the ONLY targets.”
I think judging by its outspoken president in India and its site of convergence in China, the target is Buddhism and Hinduism.
Really? I used to think that way, but quite frankly most won't give a crap. Most people just want to be left alone and live their life, and will sign up for comfortable slavery. That has been lesson of history, most men want to be comfortable, not free.
You make a good point; however, the leftists and totalitarians understand that it is the West and in particular the United States that stands in the way of their agenda. And to accomplish their goals, they MUST destroy Western Judeo-Christian culture, and they know that if they can accomplish that, the Buddhists and Hindus can be overrun without interference.
I hope that it doesn't bother anybody that I pinged this even though it's not school related. I know many homeschoolers, perhaps the majority, do so for religious reasons and this is an issue that could affect them all, especially if taken to the level of ensuring that all kids are public schooled to properly indoctrinate them.
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Yeah, atheism has done such wonders for the USSR, Cambodia, North Korea, China.....
One can make the case that sending children to public schools is child abuse, especially in the worst of schools.
The U. N. is going off the deep end. May they continue downwards like the swine that ran off the cliff when possessed with the demons.
The difference between the UN and the demoniac in Mark is that the demoniac KNEW that he was possessed and was WILLING to accept Salvation.
I can’t imagine why any parent would willingly send their kids somewhere everyday where they know that they are going to be teased and ridiculed, and possibly shot, beat up, or sexually abused.
Absolutely the UN is nothing but a leftist think tank anymore we should pull out and allow them to have an ambassador to the US...
We will work with them when it suits us..
What I would love to see (but we wont) is what the presidential candidates will have to say about this.
Yes!
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That’s not religion that’s secular, communist, government publik skools.
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