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I don't know if you touched a nerve, but you definitely failed in reaching for that analogy. Hot stoves, busy streets and mean dogs are all real, and it helps keep a child safe to know about them, and know how to deal with them. Hell, OTOH, is a man-made concept... constructed to keep people in line, force them to lead good lives, explain the unexplainable, whatever. Hell has no basis in reality, and no reason to be dealt with. Apples to oranges.
[ETA: Sorry, I hadn't seen Petunia's reply, which said the same thing. But will let this stand as reinforcement. It's a crappy, disingenuous analogy.]
And the reason is right in his name. BaptistFundie. What more needs to be said. It's the colored lens that he and his ilk see the world as.
I don't know if you touched a nerve, but you definitely failed in reaching for that analogy. Hot stoves, busy streets and mean dogs are all real, and it helps keep a child safe to know about them, and know how to deal with them. Hell, OTOH, is a man-made concept... constructed to keep people in line, force them to lead good lives, explain the unexplainable, whatever. Hell has no basis in reality, and no reason to be dealt with. Apples to oranges.
I suppose you don't believe in warning a kid about things like a hot stove, busy streets, and mean dogs, either? I know those might scare the kid. But we can also teach people how to deal with unpleasant things and how to be saved from them.
Child abuse is child abuse, innocent Christian mothers who have all the good intentions of the world seriously abuse they children by teaching their children hell, if that is not abuse, I don't know what is, and although the woman should be aware, that is just not how society works yet, but no child should be taught the bible. They might be told stories, but to brainwash a child to put him in terror EVERY DAY IS TERROR.
Some children REALLY believe what their parents say about the bible and the wicked, and they believe WAY MORE than the parent. A child hears what the parents say when the parents speak of Atheists and people who they assume are going to an eternal hell.
Some children REALLY believe what their parents say about the bible and the wicked, and they believe WAY MORE than the parent. A child hears what the parents say when the parents speak of Atheists and people who they assume are going to an eternal hell.
Some children REALLY believe what their parents say about the bible and the wicked, and they believe WAY MORE than the parent. A child hears what the parents say when the parents speak of theists and people who they assume are going to be unjust-believers.
hmmmmm ... now how do i tell who is worse?
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