06-24-2008, 09:50 PM
vsangelchick Wrote:So are you now saying that no one can make informed decisions before the age of 18? What about "what sport would you rather play?" or "are you planning on gong to college or not?" I think it's ignorant to think that passing on morals and beliefs is bad. Do you let children run lawless until they can make informed decisions? I'm not saying anyone should force something on their children, but it's stupid to avoid an education on what's there. My brother's girlfriend has a 5 year old daughter who already asks "who made God?" Children are smarter than you give them credit for.
Well 18 was an example, if youd rather 13, fine. My whole point in the first place was this: Every religion in the world thinks that they are correct, so isn't it kind of strange that people tend to take on the same religion as either their parents or the majority of the people around them?
If every religion claims to be right, and the vast majority do say that non-believers can find their way and accept that particular religion, then we would more likely see such a correlation of environment to religion and people wouldnt automatically follow a particular religion just because its been in their head since before they could remember anything.
You know why that would never work? Because if you took the average 15 year old who had never heard of the bible, who had no knowledge of who or what jesus was, the concept of heaven and hell etc.. etc... and handed him a bible, there is no way in hell any rational person would after reading it go "This all makes perfect sense, this is exactly what im looking for".
And it's not so much the children i dont give credit to by the way, they indeed can be clever, its more the parents im worried about.