Rainbow Mage
Lib Democrat/Agnostic/Epicurean-ish/Buddhist-ish
A spin off of another thread I thought it would be interesting to discuss, without hijacking the thread. So what do you think? Is religion child abuse?
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Feeding can turn into child abuse if it's taken too far. Doesn't make food bad.I think religion can turn into child abuse, depending how far you take it. I would certainly classify something like what is seen on "Jesus Camp" as child abuse. I think scaring your children into terrified submission with sin and hell is also abusive and damages their psyche.
Feeding can turn into child abuse if it's taken too far. Doesn't make food bad.
A spin off of another thread I thought it would be interesting to discuss, without hijacking the thread. So what do you think? Is religion child abuse?
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I think religion can turn into child abuse, depending how far you take it. I would certainly classify something like what is seen on "Jesus Camp" as child abuse. I think scaring your children into terrified submission with sin and hell is also abusive and damages their psyche.
Where does enculturation end and unjustified truth teaching begin?Children need to be taught about and exposed to world religions and differences in cultures, but not have to be subject to unjustified truth teaching.
Feeding can turn into child abuse if it's taken too far. Doesn't make food bad.
Where does enculturation end and unjustified truth teaching begin?
Where does enculturation end and unjustified truth teaching begin?
What do you think about it?
I don't believe in truths as being 'out there'. I think our minds create 'truths' as they unfurl before us.
I think what is justified is overwhelmingly context dependant.
I don't think I could disentangle justified truth from enculturation.
Ok i get u, but without diving deep into a philosophical grapple with the concept of truth, if we just look at it from a 21st century perspective, and in light of the evidence and reason we have, to teach, or rather, preach content that is completely affront to this, to impressionable children with the intention of blind acceptance, especially in scenarios where the content can be damaging (ideas of hell, anti homosexuality, and so on) is there no moral line being crossed? And is this not slightly different from other more passive examples of enculturation where its more observational, and less coerced and driven? Even if you see no difference, would that alter the moral character of such a specific, purposeful preaching to a child?
Is religion child abuse? No. It's religion.
Can religion be a motivation or excuse to abuse children? Yes.