Quote from: ridery99 on June 25, 2015, 01:28:15 PM

Quote from: Beliathon on June 25, 2015, 02:33:07 AM

Quote from: bank of bits on June 25, 2015, 12:17:55 AM

I support religious freedom. People should have the right to believe whatever they want as long as they don't shove it down other people's throat

Does this include the extremely impressionable minds of young children (formative years / age 2-12) by parents? Or do all parents have a natural right to "mold" their children as they see fit?

Do you believe every child has a human right to master basic critical reasoning skills prior to any religious/nationalist indoctrination? Or does every parent have a right to decide how their offspring interpret the world?

Do you consider such indoctrination [lying to young children about the world before they've properly developed the ability to reason] to be intellectual abuse that is every bit as ethically repugnant as physical abuse?

How about atheist indoctrination which is happening to children today?

Is it? Really? Or are you just confusing it with children being correctly taught to question and make up their own minds. That's what I will teach mine anyway.

Nowadays (in civilized countries anyway) the church no longer has the power to drag people in the street and beat them to death for not joining it's cult. The church has lost power.

The power has been returned to the people to make up their own mind, which is why Atheism is more popular than it once was.