05-29-2008, 09:02 PM
Quote:My children can believe whatever they want. I just don't want them to live in fear afraid of going to hell. I will not tell my children to do certain things 'because of evolution' or 'because of science', if only religious parents would do the same thing with their children when religion is considered.You seem to have only the basic understanding of the concept of Hell. You will also tell your children not to do some things, correct? Like "Don't kill people" or "Don't steal". In the Darwinian survival of the fittest paradigm, if you can dominate your peers it is success. The biological urge to propagate your genes is success, and whatever means you take to insure that is survival. Your children will ask you "Why not kill, dad?", "Why not cheat and steal to get ahead?" and your answer will be based on what? On a social theory? It is weak.
Quote:Your question about brainwashing is too silly for words....and I will not answer it because I think you know the answer yourself.Yes, I know the answer. You used the word Brainwashing in the wrong context. To assert that people that teach religion are exerting methods of coercive persuasion is absurd. Just as it would be absurd to suggest that all university professors are are exerting methods of coercive persuasion. To teach something you are against is Brainwashing, but to teach something you are for is learning. That is why you have no words.