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I believe I read about that statistic in the Pew Foundation report on religion, which came out a year or two ago.

It is pretty much impossible for me to converse with you on this when you refer to raising children with certain beliefs and values using the inflammatory term "indoctrination," particularly when you (was it you at 14:28?) cited my parenting practices in this arena as "respecting your kids, teaching them, and allowing them to make their own choices."[/quote]

It's your call, of course, to cut of conversation in you want to, but please know that I'm using indoctrination correctly -- nothing inlamatory about it -- it just describes immersion in belief with minimal or no access to other beliefs or fact or evidence to the contrary of the beliefs.

I was not 14:28 and I agree that your approach is better than the person (assuming it's someone else) who has put their kids in Catholic to shield them from other points of view.   I say that any religious instruction that teaches that one interpretation of God is the correct one that must be "believed" is indoctrination.

[b]I was mildly indoctrinated as a child - taught that the tenets of  Catholism were true (in Sunday school) and taught by my parents that protestants were good people who wrongly broke away from Catholism and that Jews could be good people despite the fact that they didn't believe that Jesus was the son of God.  Still, it was indoctrination - based strictly on religious beliefs[/b].[/quote]

Too bad for you.  I was not indoctrinated as a child, nor do I indoctrinate my children (per your definition).

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Do you actively teach your kids about other religions and humanism?  Do you tell them that morals are separate from religion -- that morals exist with or without religion?  Do you teach them that the beliefs in religions are from stories that may not have actually happened and that "supernatural" means things that take place outside of nature for which there is no evidence?  If so -- good for you -- you are not indoctrinating your children.[/quote]

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