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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Brainwashing.  Please stop perpetuating it. [/quote]

Are you Buddhist? If not, try this thought experiment. Do you think it's brainwashing when a Buddhist mom takes her children to temple? I'm guessing not. When religions are "foreign" enough for us to see them clearly, we recognize that they're cultural practices --  part and parcel of a person's cultural identity. Therefore they feel off limits to our judgment.

Of course, ALL religions are cultural practices. Even the one practiced by your nosy annoying neighbor. They're brainwashing only in the same way that all other cultural customs, traditions, and norms are "brainwashing."

Anyway, OP, I think that understanding the cultural nature of religion is actually the key to raising a child who will continue to practice the religion as an adult.

If your child truly experiences the religion as a crucial, integral part of his or her cultural identity, s/he'll be far more more likely to remain involved, or drawn back into it, once she's an independent adult.[/quote]

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