Atheist Richard Dawkins: ‘Indoctrination of religion’ is ‘child abuse’

[MellowDem]

52. It's the difference between indoctrination and education...

Indoctrination is telling your child there is a God as a matter of fact, when it's a matter of belief. Indoctrination is done with the intent that the child won't question what is being told to them, and in fact will be discouraged from questioning it, and when they do question it, will not get any real answers.

One can educate children on what various religions believe, and is probably necessary and helpful to do so, and if you subscribe to one, telling your child you believe that way is fine, and even why you believe that way when they're old enough to understand and think critically, but you should be mindful you don't tell them that's the only way to believe, or that if they don't believe that way they're going to hell, those are all forms of indoctrination, through threats or otherwise.

As for bringing them to any religious institutions, I don't know of many who don't do indoctrination 24/7, so bringing them is simply exposing them to indoctrination by third parties.