Well, I'm sure you will agree with me when I say, if I have children I do not wish them to lie to me.
But that's really odd, because will I still teach them about santa or the easter bunny? Would it be fair for my to lie to them during their most important years of their life and yet demand they do not lie to me?
Is it fair that they get preached to in school about a god? And yet I expect them to think logically and for themselves? Equally, not to lie. Is it fair I raise them to my religious beliefs even before they can understand them?
So, as a child I was taught about all the above.
My parents are not religious, but my gran is, and my gran and mother are superstitious (stupid I know), and I was taught about santa and everything, equally I was preached to a weekly basis. Now, how can my school and parents expect me not to lie? Isn't that just hypocritical? I was taught lies since I was born, it's there, in my brain nagging away, something I cannot change. I did not ask for this, and if I could I would have preferred never to have had any of these things. (Not new parents, just non-superstitious ones). I believe this is extremely unfair on children and very hypocritical to the children.
But am I wrong in denying my child something I was entitled to? Or should I teach them the truth? Not what I believe to be the truth, but what I know to be the truth.
Can a child really be religious? At 7 year olds you would all agree with me that very little children understand politics, therefore they have no stance on their views of it. So, what makes religion any different? If they are too young to understand politics aren't they too young to understand religion? We do not able children by their parents political views, now do we? I am not a labour child (I am SNP, but that is irrelevant), am I? No of course not, it is stupid, why would I be?
Yet if my parents were Christian I would be dubbed a Christian child! That is not fair on me.
Hell, I would go to the extent to say that teaching children religion before they can understand it is child abuse, and against their human rights to freedom of thought and expression.
So, why is society so screwed up?
