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This discussion started with an observation about the overwhelming majority of all religious people, not about you personally. Even if you personally don't indoctrinate your children in your own religion, and even if there are millions like you, that's pretty much what the parents (and more distant relatives and teachers etc.) of the majority of religious people around the world did, and threatening with eternal damnation is just one popular tool in the hands of the indoctrinators.

I always compare this to party allegiance. There is a correlation between people's party allegiance and that of their parents, too, but no one speaks about 12-year-old, 6-year-old or even newborn Social Democrats or Tories, the way people routinely talk about such Christians or Muslims. And there is a reason there is such a thing as voting age, but for whatever reason, there is no similar thing for religion.

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.

by DoDo on Wed Feb 12th, 2014 at 07:01:01 AM EST
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