Kythas wrote:
Some people believe any form of religious instruction is indoctrination. These are generally people who believe all religions are false and no God exists.
I know one person who actually believes taking your children to church should qualify as child abuse and should, at the very least, qualify for CPS to remove children from the parents' custody. He would actually like to see parents arrested for the act of taking children to church.
Sad to hear. This person is simply deceived and walks in the dark. Of many things being done to children in our society, he chooses to focus on the Christian upbringing? All Christian families I know personally have the safest and most thriving environment for their children. Those children are honest, disciplined, polite, academically successful and pleasant to talk to.
The person you are describing wants a Government involvement in the spiritual upbringing of children? Well, I grew up in Eastern Europe in the times, when Christian were getting arrested for going to church. That was called a TOTALITARIAN REGIME. Nazis in Germany had the same type of thinking, as well as any nanny state in history — keeping their hands in how people were raising their kids. Obviously, unlike someone who, like me, knows the horrors of an oppressive regime, the person you are describing does not really appreciate the freedoms in this land, which was founded by people seeking religious freedom.
These arrests for people's faith are still happening in places like China. Since that person agrees with their ideology, maybe he should seek home in one of those countries. This mode of thinking is not just un-American, it's anti-American, as it goes against the very grain of this country's fabric.
I would advise him to try to spend a few weeks in a country, where they would arrest people for taking kids to church. He is insulting all the people who have fought and died to keep our great Nation free. His thinking is clearly in line with a totalitarian state policies and a nanny state. He, probably, doesn't believe in the 2nd Amendment either, since it would be inconsistent with his convictions on religious freedoms (or lack thereof). Your post of this man's thinking, really brought up bad memories for me of the oppression my family experienced at the hands of the socialist fascists...
He obviously has no idea that it were people LIKE HIM, with his type of extreme views, that organized that political regime.
Sad and angering.
