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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm not trying to play gotcha. I'm trying to distinguish different parenting approaches to spirituality and religious education.

If you don't like the term indoctrination for the subset of practices I'm specifically calling out, then explain why the term isn't appropriate and why my reaction to it is wrong.

I've been consistent about which practices I've called indoctrination and, as I also keep noting, there are parents involved in this conversation who take a much more open ended and, I would say, respectful, approach to their children's spiritual development and religious education.

If you think the parents using the methods I've called indoctrination are actually doing something open minded that supports their children's education and spiritual growth - whatever path those children chose, then I'm open to hearing how I've misinterpreted what seems to be a dedicated effort to cause their children to believe exactly what, and in the way, that their parents believe.

If, on the other hand, you just don't like the word because you don't like the way it feels when it's applied to what you're doing with your kids, then perhaps you need to look at why the word stings, not the word itself. [/quote]
15:14 here, not sure if you are responding to me or not. I will say this, I think to a great degree we may be having 2 different discussions, or at least 2 different approaches. It seems as if, and I may be wrong, that your approach to the topic at hand is a 'right or wrong', it is 'this or that' approach. You want to have someone 'prove' why "indoctrination" is not an accurate description of the faith education in their family. I am not interested in proving anyone wrong (or right), I am not interested in defending what I do or believe. I think faith is just a matter of that, faith. It is a matter of how you see God and not what you or anyone else can prove or disprove. I could list a bunch of things to me "prove" God's presence in my life, and 100 people could discount each and everyone of them as poppycock, not withstanding the measures of science or intellect. I could not care less, not worth going there for me. [/quote]

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