Yes, parents make decisions. It's interesting that you bring up the fact that they can't vote as children. We don't let their parents cast votes for them, do we? No, we wait until the children have grown to let them vote for themselves. If your stance applied to drinking and smoking, we'd leave that up to parents do decide.
My point is that it's important to be open with children when you are sharing your opinions with them. It's okay to tell kids that you aren't someone who knows definitively the answers to everything. I don't think all parents who raise their children in a religious family are indoctrinating them by default. But it came up here because people said that homeschooling was useful in keeping the kids from defecting.
I guess I can explicitly say that singing some religious songs and going to church is not really what I'm talking about. It's hard to give concrete examples, but for instance people who tell their children they're going to go to Hell if they don't believe in God. That goes beyond just exposing them to church.
My point is that it's important to be open with children when you are sharing your opinions with them. It's okay to tell kids that you aren't someone who knows definitively the answers to everything. I don't think all parents who raise their children in a religious family are indoctrinating them by default. But it came up here because people said that homeschooling was useful in keeping the kids from defecting.
I guess I can explicitly say that singing some religious songs and going to church is not really what I'm talking about. It's hard to give concrete examples, but for instance people who tell their children they're going to go to Hell if they don't believe in God. That goes beyond just exposing them to church.
BS Liberal Arts progress - 105/120
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