If children are taught that adultery is punishable by stoning to death then there is nothing wrong with that because those are the laws their parents and their parents parents lived by.
Firstly, this is a matter of opinion. Secondly, this becomes extremely problematic to a degree that I don't think you realize. Instead of your example of stoning to death adulterers, let's place instead "blowing themselves up and taking as many people with them as they can (in which you are no exception)", and maybe you'll start to see that your example isn't a good point at all, merely one that houses itself in a more comfortable scenario. Or how about this: "If children are taught that their unprovable beliefs, admittedly with no evidence backing them, are the unquestionable truth and that other beliefs, though just as irrational, are inferior and that any subsequent action of ridding them from existence, no matter how violent or inhumane, is completely justified, then there is nothing wrong with that because those are the laws their parents and their parents lived by."
The reason we're talking about this in the first place if you'll recall is your outrageous claim that atheist children are the more commonly abused children. Abuse, either sexual or mental, is at it's core, a violation of trust; it's taking something away from the child that will greatly effect their future lives, in which they have no say of the matter. As you said with the stream, it becomes a river, and it gets harder and harder to escape from (or see a reason to do so).
What I'm saying is that to indoctrinate children with any kind of faith is arguably just as scarring as sexual abuse. I've read an account (and I'm sure I could find many more) where an individual who has been sexually abused at a young age and also indoctrinated in early years says that what keeps her up at night is not the effects of the sexual abuse, but effects of the indoctrination; in this case, images of hell-fire and close friends who are believed to be there.
Encouraging children to doubt authority is exactly why there are so many social problems in the Western world. More insidiously it is part of the arsenal of weapons Western Imperialists use against other cultures. Most blatantly in the use of the word 'freedom' by America.
An interesting theory indeed, but as I can see it over here in the Western World, virtually
nobody teaches their children to doubt authority. In fact, it's quite the opposite, which is the problem I've been trying to bring to your attention.
Christianity and atheism are the same thing. One worships God as man, the other man as God. Both of them are dangerous and destructive. This has been proven in history many times over.
Perhaps you don't know what an atheist is, it's one who denies the existence of a God or gods, period. So not only is this far from Christianity, but your labeling of atheists as ones who believe themselves to be God is far from remotely accurate.
Wasn't it you who just said that attributing beliefs and practices to people
who never claimed or did any such thing is how the West maintains it's power over non-Western cultures?
Attributing beliefs and practices to people who never claimed or did any such thing is exactly how the West maintains its power over non-Western cultures.
Oh, yes it was. And I never claimed to be God. Practice what you preach.
