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Originally Posted by evman150
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.
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The thing is though the very act of parenting is indoctrination.. every virtue and flaw is passed on to the children. As a parent I worry all the time about what flaws I am inadvertantly teaching and what virtues I am not modeling.
For every parent that teaches their child to value reason, there's another that teaches hatred of those below them.
In practical terms, outside of rounding up all the children and putting them in education facilities so they're all taught "properly" (or who even gets to decide that), how can you even do that?
I guess like you said limiting churchgoing to the age of majority might be a method, but church is so intertwined with culture and history it would never happpen.