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Originally Posted by baddog
Religion harms kids? How so?
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It assaults their critical thinking, makes them choose "faith" over logic, and creates patterns of thought that lead to all of us suffering: the bullshit about sin leads to ridiculous censorship, the crazy "Jesus will forgive you" thing leads to Donny situations instead of just being MORAL for the SAKE of it, and the indoctrination (brainwashing) of kids with fairly tales is just disgusting as-is. Telling them the Jesus story as a STORY is fine, but telling them it's REAL is just ... crazy.