Atheist child indoctrination, “child abuse,” and “brain washing”

Examiner ^ | May 15, 2010 AD | Mariano Grinbank

[metmom]

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[fightinJAG]

To turn children into atheists, as opposed to an young person or adult who, so to speak, declines to accept the existence of God, parents must disabuse children of what their own eyes are telling them.

This seems to me to be an emotionally and psychologically disturbing process, especially so the younger the age it occurs. It is not the flip side of a parent providing a child religious instruction, which (truth be told) the child may or may not accept. Religious instruction at least does not require the child, at fundamental levels, to say that his own instinctive conclusions are actually lies.

This is not to say that, as the child grows up, he may not choose to dismiss what his eyes tell him. But that is not as harmful psychologically as having parents teach him from an early age that he cannot trust his own spiritual instincts at all.

Fascinating research here:

Children are born believers in God, academic claims.

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[wintertime]

Gee! Why should atheist parents worry about raising atheist children?

Tax funded and secular ( that means godless) government schools teach our nation’s kids to think godlessly ALL DAY LONG!

[metmom]

If parents really wish to make atheist children, they should live lives of hypocrisy; that is, be atheists, but pretend to be Christians. That will sour kids on God real fast.. .a lot faster than involving them in intellectual pursuit.

Sadly, there's way too much truth in your comment.

[little jeremiah]

It’s a simple law of nature. Children are affected and influenced by what they are taught both in school and at home and at church. They are influenced by their peers, their parents and teachers. If they are taught about God, with love and understanding, they will be more likely to accept God when they are older.

If they are taught that God does not exist, this will influence them but not necessarily for ever, but it will have influence.

Right now, such influence is a veritable onslaught via public education, the media of all kinds and the general culture. This is very unfortunate and means that parents who want their children to be safe from this malignant influence have to be very alert, cautious and pro-active.