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Originally Posted by rubecube
Not really going to happen if they're still being forced to go to church.
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This is why they shouldn't have to go to churches.
Here's a statement that sounds incredibly harsh at first blush but is absolutely true:
Indoctrination of children is tantamount to intellectual rape.
It is my belief that the only things that should be "indoctrinated" into children are skepticm and free thought. Doubt everything and make up your own mind.
I am fine with religion, I'm not about to stop anybody from doing it. Some thoughts though...Really how is it different from smoking or drinking or going to strip clubs? Would it not be fair to say you have to be 18 to attend a church? And facilitating underage religion would be a crime, just as it is to buy smokes or booze for minors?
I don't know, my thoughts sound extreme even to me.
But it takes something to break the chain of ignorance. Something needs to happen. I suppose we can let the "fire" just slowly go away, as it is destined to, but it sure would be great to just extinguish it all together (Do NOT take this the wrong way, I'm talking about grandfathering visors in, not making everyone wear them).
I am pretty sure that, in today's somewhat enlightened society, that if it was illegal to indoctrinate religious thoughts into children that the chain would be broken and religion would die out in a couple generations.
Here I will quote myself:
"[In the early times of human history] we are too dumb to think of anything, then we develop enough to start to question our surroundings. But at this point our brains are capable of only questioning, not answering. This is the evolutionary stage that requires religion to supply all answers. Eventually, we evolve to the stage where we begin to be able to supply some of our own answers, not from our imaginations, but via our intellects. Eventually we evolve to the point where we can supply all the answers, totally supressing the need for any imaginary answers (religion) altogether.
Today, we live in a stage of human evolution where we have sufficient scientific knowledge to begin to start casting off the shackles of religious and intellectual oppression."