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Do parents have the right to make their children follow their religion?
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I do not believe that they have that right. A small child does not have the ability to understand what it means. The parents are doing nothing more than indoctrinating their children to believe in the supernatural.
A Catholic bishop once said that if you were to give him a child for its first seven years, he would give you a Catholic for life.
People talk about Christian children or Jewish children for example, even though the child has no real grasp of what that is supposed to mean. It would be more accurate to call them children of Christian or Jewish parents.
I think the fear that religious parents have is that if they leave introducing religion to the child when the child is older and better able to reason that it may reject what they have to offer. Indoctrination from an early age solves. that problem
A Catholic bishop once said that if you were to give him a child for its first seven years, he would give you a Catholic for life.
People talk about Christian children or Jewish children for example, even though the child has no real grasp of what that is supposed to mean. It would be more accurate to call them children of Christian or Jewish parents.
I think the fear that religious parents have is that if they leave introducing religion to the child when the child is older and better able to reason that it may reject what they have to offer. Indoctrination from an early age solves. that problem
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At what age should a child be introduced to a parent's religion?
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I think that parents should be expected to perform their basic functions (provide the child with shelter, food, safety and guidance) and to not resort to cruel treatment (physical and verbal abuse), but when it comes to ideological things, they should be free to do whatever they want. If the society wants to help the child, then it should encourage him to think critically and challenge his parents' religious claims. It should not silence the parents.
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