Aswad
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ORIGINAL: brainiacsub The original statement by Sugar was that it is immoral to indoctrinate children religiously. Which is what I disagreed with, as I do not see it as any different from indoctrinating them secularly. quote:
Religion is absolutist, creates an us and them mentality, is intolerant by it's very nature, and not only perpetuates but encourages ignorance. Right. I'm pretty much a priest. I oppose absolutism, and have for 14 years. I oppose the us/them mentality and the psychological phenomenon of the moral core, and have for about 10 years. I oppose intolerance, and have done so for as long as I can remember. I try to dispel ignorance, and have done so for about 20 years. These things are part of my religious convictions. They are also part of a significant number of religions. However, a lot of people don't take it to heart. And that is not limited to people who hold religious convictions. I have seen it just as frequently among secular humanists, if not more frequently. quote:
I answered the question to offer an objective standard of morality for acceptable indoctrination. You failed to offer any evidence that it is objective, and I posit that it is not. It is merely meta-absolutist (in the sense that you posit it as being objective and acceptable, with other approaches being subjective and unacceptable; which, by the way, contradicts its contents to some extent, and undermines your argument). quote:
I also think we are confusing indoctrination and teaching. You may be confusing them. I am not. Child rearing is indoctrination. The question is what we indoctrinate them with. quote:
I have no problem teaching my children about religion, but indoctrination requires that they accept and adopt those beliefs as their own without question. I would have no problem teaching mine about nazism, communism, capitalism, secular humanism, or anything else. But I would not raise (indoctrinate) them with any values other than those I hold myself. Should I raise them to hold values I do not agree with? What values would that be, and who decides? quote:
I am not against indoctrination in principle, but some indoctrination is more harmful than others. Define harmful, and provide evidence that all religious indoctrination is more harmful than other indoctrination. Otherwise, you may want to consider that what you're saying sounds remarkably like "I don't want my kids to go through what I did." Health, al-Aswad.
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"If God saw what any of us did that night, he didn't seem to mind. From then on I knew: God doesn't make the world this way. We do." -- Rorschack, Watchmen.
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