Re: [RatFist] TenNapel is fearless
Andrew Irwin <[email protected]>
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On 29 April 2011 07:16, Mike Findlay <[email protected]> wrote: > I've heard the indoctrination accusation, even on my favorite radio show > out of the mouth of my favorite radio host Ron Bennington. That charge is > out there and has been out there for some time. I had a sociology > professor, '83 0r '84 bring it up but counter it by saying that bringing up > a kid with religion in reality gives them more free choice than bringing > them up without it. It is harder to come to belief as an adult than a > child, and relatively easier to lose a beliefs held as a child when you > become an adult. Thought provoking at least. > > My response to the indoctrination argument is that because I believe that Jesus is Lord and is the only salvation and to not believe has eternal consequences, to not tell my children that would be an eternal child abuse. Children want to choose to not eat veges, not go to school to drive drunk and crash, yet we indoctrinate them to choose these things (at least we try) so why not eternal salvation? If you don't make a conscious effort to pass these beliefs to your children do you really believe they are true? ----------------------- Andrew Irwin -- dadl-ot mailing list http://mail.thehood.us/mailman/listinfo/dadl-ot_thehood.us http://news.gmane.org/gmane.music.dadl.ot