Christianity’s message to its children
20 July 2010 by StardustChilling video from the Thinking Atheist. What children are being taught in the name of God. And it is all true and not an exaggeration. Those of us who were born into and raised in Christian homes were all told these things and had them drilled into us again and again, week after week in the churches and Sunday school.
20 July 2010, on 7:09 pm
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20 July 2010, on 8:21 pm
YUCK!!!
20 July 2010, on 8:38 pm
Yuck is absolutely right. It’s sickening, isn’t it?
This is what we realized we were doing when we were taking our kids to church when they were little. I have told this story a couple times now. One Sunday when we were attending morning services at our local Presbyterian church, my husband asked our daughter who was very young then why she wasn’t saying the confession, and she said “because it says I am bad, and I am not bad.” What could we say to that, and though we were already starting to really having doubts about our religion, that was really when we started separating ourselves from it. Our daughter was a sweet child, and is still a very sweet young woman, but also strong and confident. I am glad we didn’t stay to continue the brainwashing and destruction of her self-esteem.
20 July 2010, on 9:45 pm
The indoctrination of the young is a primary focus of the religiously deluded. The delusion can only continue with the constant inclusion of new blood (and crackers). That’s why the churches are so involved with education. It really is no better than Hogwarts, at least the Harry Potter saga is a positive story with a moral message that doesn’t involve the promotion of genocide and slavery, not to mention female submission. Seems to me that the churches run schools to serve two purposes, they being: a steady supply of fresh flesh for the perverted priests to play with and immature minds to sell their rubbish to. To keep the con going, they need the kids. They admit that if they’re not got by age 14, they won’t be got at all.
20 July 2010, on 11:41 pm
Stardust and Robster, you said it all! Since the church’s business is hatching, matching and dispatching it would appear appropriate for this video to be shown to all women contemplating motherhood and of course all fathers contemplating fatherhood.
21 July 2010, on 8:03 am
I wish someone would (or maybe they have) do a study on the amount of mental anguish that’s often suffered as a result of these delusional beliefs.
I was raised Catholic, and my mom used to tell me stories of people who suffered terribly if their children died before getting baptized because the church said those children couldn’t enter heaven.
I was just having a conversation with mom and she told me that she missed mass at one point before my first communion and wasn’t able to get to confession. She was so upset that she was, not only in danger of hell, but that she wouldn’t be able to receive communion on that ‘joyous’ day when I got my first.
Of course the church softened their stance on the unbaptized baby thing, but that still doesn’t make up for the thousands who suffered extreme mental torture at the thought of their dead children floating in limbo forever.
21 July 2010, on 8:23 am
Of course the church softened their stance on the unbaptized baby thing
Interesting how believers are always changing the will of their omnipotent gods.
21 July 2010, on 8:44 pm
Hey, good point Stardust. How do these people communicate with…absolutely nothing? It can really e no more than ‘voices in my head’ kind of stuff. A symptom of mental disorder perhaps. That is really all it can be, or it could be purely made up, a creation of sorts. their gawd never talks or communicates, so i suppose, to have something to talk about and to extend their power, lets tell the folks I had a talk with the lawd or gawd. I mean, how can they prove otherwise? They can’t. Equally, it’s even sillier that people actually believe these dipsh*ts talk to a sky fairy. I say to them..Put away the methamphetamine and try tobacco. Tobacco will assist with faster exit to heaveennn..Yippee.