Do you believe every child has a basic 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?
Nailed it.
It is abuse, and I do agree with this. As children we are very naive and have not developed the right thinking skills, anyone could sell you a story about magical beings that are going to save you in the end.
Just because this doesn't leave visible evidence as physical abuse does, it doesn't mean that there is no abuse.
Most of the believers do not even realize this. If a christian (example) was born in a different region and had different guardians he would most likely have a different faith.
It can only be considered abuse if you're lying.
The church does lie, as it tells people xyz will happen when they die, and they tell it as fact.
It's okay to guess however, but the church doesn't tell it's listeners it's just wildly guessing, it's falsely presented as fact.
Nobody knows what happens when we die.
Nobody.
Anyone or anything that claims "they/it knows" is lying and should be ignored.