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."
From that to law doesn’t take much. Wacko leftists are in charge of the laws and they read this kind of nonsense.
-but don’t take your kids with you! LOL
US out of the UN
I agree, but it should also be “UN out of the US!” Kick them out of NYC and send them to Geneva, Paris, Beiging, or some other USA-Israel hating city and then nuke it.
Bump for later reading if I can overcome my repulsion
insanity must, I suppose, run its course. it won’t last forever.
What is truly "child abuse" is tell a child that they are from the scum of the earth.( the religion of Darwin )
LOL!
Child abuse!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I thought you may be interested in seeing this if you haven’t already as this is just one more step that fits in with what you have been posting the last few days (about the educator who said that all children who come to public school with a belief in God are mentally damaged...).
It’s not surprising to me that this conference is taking place in Communist Beijing, China where people are regularly oppressed for religious reasons. As most people know (I hope), socialism and/or communism cannot survive if the people have an allegiance to anything other than the state (i.e. Family, the Ideals of Personal Freedom, or most importantly, God).
Things really are getting much worse the last few years, aren’t they??? God help us in the coming years...
Thank you for posting this wagglebee. I’m in agreement with you here — I’m totally speechless at this point.
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“All of us are influenced by religion. If it isn’t the religion of our parents it will be the religion of someone else.”
Exactly. It can be very successfully argued that secular humanism is a religion. As well as atheism.
oops- should have your reply before posting mine.
Great minds think alike. :)
Thanks.
Will do.
Thank you very much for the ping, metmom. This is an important thing to keep an eye on...
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In terms of this issue . . . I think I read of such things first in 1965. THESE PLANS HAVE BEEN IN THEIR OWN PUBLICATIONS FOR AT LEAST 4 DECADES. This is NOT new information except to the uninformed, uninitiated, allergic to research, lulled to zombie status, believers of MSM propaganda . . . and whoever else has lived under a rock the last however long . . . or who may have merely chosen to ignore the evidence for whatever reasons . . .
In any case, the day when such can be ignored has passed, imho. It is now being rubbed in our faces in prime time. Of course, it is highly unlikely that we can do more than hinder and slow such down. AS my documentation on other threads has noted . . . this is a MAJOR focus of the socialists, globalists, demonized traitors.
I would encourage all parents to train their children of whatever age as age-fittingly as possible—to
1. BE DEVOTED TO GOD AT ALL COSTS IN ALL SITUATIONS EVEN UNTO DEATH.
2. BE WISE REBELS—ESPECIALLY IN HEART BUT ALSO IN ACTION, IN WHATEVER WAYS ARE FITTING, WISE AND FOR A TIME, AT LEAST . . . SAFEr.
3. Give them solid Biblical reasons for their faith and insure that you are modeling a walk with God first and foremost. They will learn from your deeds far more than your words.
4. I would even go so far as to role play some sort of likely END TIMES situations whether at school or elsewhere EVERY WEEK. In some respects, we are behind in implementing such programs of an intense sort.
5. I suspect that there are military types hereon who could give us some pointers on civil disobedience as well as propaganda and mind control resistence techniques.
6. But mostly, we need to teach our children to hear the still small voice of God and obey HIM AND HIM ONLY AT ALL TIMES.
7. God have mercy on our beloved Republic; and on FR. May He give Jim Robinson and family great wisdom, provision, courage, toughness, foresight and effectiveness in the coming months and years. I’m convinced Jim was reared up for such a time as this.
God be with all TRUE FREEPERS.
Agreed.
But this plan has been known widely about for decades.
Shrillery, Scuba Teddy et al have pushed it along most vigorously if cleverly. She’s eager to push kids into school earlier for this specific reason.
And she pretends to be a Christian. GRRRRR.
China will be part of the world government. But, imho, she is one of those Scripture talks about rebelling against the Anti-Christ at some point.
Certainly the Chinese see themselves as ruling the world alone as top dog. They will play any game to get there.
The globalists, no doubt, think they have the Chinese well in hand and cooperating nicely—and they likely are—biding the time when they can do all the others in. Russia is probably playing a similar game.
Agreed.
But it won’t happen that we’ll pull out this side of ARmageddon.
It’s been that way for at least a couple of decades, maybe all the way back to 50 years or more ago. Depends on the level of such assertions, I suppose.
I agree with your assertion . . . I think we are in the birth pangs leading up to the Great Tribulation. Things are going to get interesting, indeed.
It’s been that way for at least a couple of decades, maybe all the way back to 50 years or more ago. Depends on the level of such assertions, I suppose.
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