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Originally Posted by Rathji
If they are not indoctrinated, how the hell else do you learn to be a good person? You don't just wake up in the morning at 15 years old and decide " wow, I think I am going to be a good boy from now on". Parents have the right and responsiblity of shaping a childs mind. How are kids supposed to know what is wrong to do if you dont tell them? The manual for how life works isn't actually included when we are born. Our parents teach it to us.
Who is in the right? Bob next door teaching his kid that premaritial sex is bad, or with Suzy down the street who is trying to stop her 15year old son from sodomizing the cat. You know damn well that 99% of this board would agree that raping a cat should be something that should be taught as wrong. Does that mean that you shouldn't teach your kids this stuff? Just because you think that you shouldn't indoctrinate your kids?
You can't have it both ways. You teach your kids what is wrong! Period. They are not going to learn it from someone else. You can carry on and think that teaching your kids right from wrong, in religious form or not, but you are doing them a far worse disservice by not teaching them what is wrong than by teaching them it. I promise you.
Unless you want to be the one going to the police station when they are 17 because they were got caught doing B&E's to support their coke habit. Or testifying at thier trial when they knifed a guy in the alley on 17th Ave when they get into a fight. Send your kid to jail for 15 years when they are 20 years old, then they get to learn what REAL rape is. I am sure they will thank you for not intelecually raping them as kids by teaching them right from wrong.
Peace.
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I think you miread his post Rathji...he was talking about having religious morals "indoctrinated" into children.