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cleanhippie

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6. We all have our own ideas about what is and is not abuse.
Fri May 18, 2012, 09:00 AM
May 2012

For me, indoctrinating a child into a religion just as they become self-aware (around two) and then constantly feeding them daily doses of insanity that directly contradicts the natural world we live in, and mentally crippling them by withholding the tools needed to think critically, ask questions, and seek real answers, IS child abuse.

There IS a wide and discernible gap between religious instruction and religious indoctrination. And far too often, if not mostly, its indoctrination.


We frequently hear of "parents rights", but forget about "parents responsibility" and "childrens right to a quality education." I fell its not a right to indoctrinate one's child, but it IS the child's right and parents responsibility to ensure that they get a quality education that is not full of supernatural gobbledygook.

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