Indoctrination techniques

[Dead-again christian]

Just asking because i noticed the kids section at the last christian store i visited was abnormally large... hmm i wonder why kids, with their perceptive logical deductive educated reasoning would ever convert when pressured by their parents to read "The bible for kids".

[jason]

You imply that a rational person would not be indoctrinated.  That's kinda offensive, buddy.  

At any rate, I was indoctrinated at a young age with Atheism.  Only when i grew up and used my reasoning capabilities did i start to believe in God.  

It goes both ways.

[Dead-again christian]

a rational person does not automatically devote their life to a theory... now if i lived my life by the big bang theory, tried to convert others to it at every turn, and built churches to worship it i think it would be a different story

[Christianity is Mythology]

You imply that a rational person would not be indoctrinated.  That's kinda offensive, buddy.  

At any rate, I was indoctrinated at a young age with Atheism.  Only when i grew up and used my reasoning capabilities did i start to believe in God.  

It goes both ways.

ITS DOESNT GO BOTH WAYS, THERE IS NO "ATHEIST STORE" IN THE MIDDLE OF A SHOPPING MALL!

and can you please quit attacking the question, and attack the content?  "Your post was offensive" is not a valid contention.

[jason]

and can you please quit attacking the question, and attack the content?

I did.  I said, "It goes both ways."  Some people are indoctrinated at a young age to one side and convert when they are older, and some people to the other side.  Therefore, the whole content of your post is ruther pointless.

[Zagzagel]

Ummm.....where exactly is the content?  If you are trying to prove that a child can be 'educated' in a certian direction, and hold to those beliefs, then I agree, and yet disagree.   Now what do you make of Jason?  He said he was 'indoctrinated' to be athiest, and through reason of age, became thiest.

[Sir Somebody Something]

Of course children are educated into Christianity by their Christian parents. And into atheism by atheist parents, and Buddhism by Buddhist parents, and Islam by Muslim parents, and terrorism by terrorist parents, and tolerance by tolerant parents, and hedonism by hedonist parents... pretty much whatever-you-can-think-of by the parents that follow aforementioned whatever-you-can-think-of. As for me, I was "indoctrinated" Catholic, got fed up with the whole lot of them, became atheist for two years through reason of age; and then, after a series of circumstances that triggered a rather long chain of thought, I became a non-denominational Christian by way of that same thing, reason of age.

If you have or had a child, you would teach them your beliefs. Who the bloody heck wouldn't? If I had a kid, I would raise the little squirt as a non-denominational Christian who is tolerant of other religions and open to the opinions of others, because that is what I happen to be.

It goes both ways, as jason said. You don't need to have an "Atheist Store" in the middle of the shopping mall, Myth. You don't even need a book. All you need is a pregnant person who doesn't believe in God. Or a pregnant person who does believe in God. Or a pregnant person looking to attain nirvana. Or a pregnant racist.

Is this practice of raising a child on your beliefs evil in some way?