Originally Posted by sackarias

First, I agree that most children accept views their parents place in front of them. But it's a crock of shit to say it's not forcing and that it's teaching. Teaching requires two things, a student and an unbiased mentor. Unbiased being the key. Sitting in science class having my biology teacher teaching me evolution when he was the leader of our high school's "Students For Christ" club is being unbiased. And no I'm not talking some petty bull crap like this programming prof. is biased toward indentation in this format and this one isn't or do your long division this way as opposed to this way. How can a kid become an independent thinker when his supposed independent ideologies are stripped away when he's force fed thoughts on life? A child has no means or ability to engage in a truly meaningful and concrete discussion on life until they hit a certain age. When you're 5 and you're told this is what happens/happened and you're surrounded by others, who when they were the same age were told the same thing, does not stimulate thought. It's force feeding ideas into someones life. Let children breath and enjoy life, and make the decisions themselves. You could take a child and tell them anything, and after being told enough times they will believe it. EVEN without solid evidence, and no I'm sorry folks but I don't think the bible is concrete enough for me. But it's very solid when you're told in your earliest years that everything in this book is true no matter what. I could hand a kid the lord of the rings series, and say this happened thousands of years ago, I bet you they would believe it after years of force feeding : )

George Carlin said it best (rip).