Is it morally acceptable for children to be born into a religion?

I thought this for many years until I read of the discoveries made by people like Helen wambach and brian Weiss. People choose every aspect of the their future life before they enter the body, if the person wanted to be born into an atheist family they would be born into one. No religion is wrong just a different path to the same source.

morals and ethics are not part of an religious dogma that requires all children born to them are brought up in that religion.

since the more controlling a religion is ( over mind and economics etc) the more it will need to have its followers heavily indoctrinated. to a point they simply cannot fathom doing otherwise and will argue to support it in every way.

such mental indoctrination form an early age is very powerful. letting anybody have a free mind and having a free choice is frightening to any religion requiring all followers to follow without question or reason.

to see how powerful such indoctrination can be look up stockholm syndrome and patty hearst.

I think children naturally want to copy their parents and they learn and observe and copy what they see in their environment so even if a parent said well i wont actively raise you as a christian they wil be copying their family until they know better.

Some religions more than others take over your lifestyle and affects your way of life like sunday being spent in church or covering your hair .. its harder to separate it and continue to raise a child free from the parents or carers influence.

what i am against is religious schooling..you know going to a catholic schoo or jewish saturday school or teaching them the quran (more like memorising it)..

thankfully there are people who find their own path despite being raised in a heavily reigious environment.

I agree with you.

the exact same case people would make for them to be "born into relgion" is the same argument one would make for children in southern homes to be "born into racism" when their parents were former slave owners.

the parents knew a certain way of life and thinking, and thrust such wrongs on their children forcing the childrens educational process to be skewed by that not by logic.

it is less a problem in developing countries today for the simple fact that children have access to internet and other information as opposed to 50-60 years ago when it was easier to curtail their access to information.

in areas where this access to information and exposure to other lifestyles is limited then this is a much bigger problem.

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I have no problem with a kid being told:

"mom and dad believe as follows......, but there are other options or none."

the problem is that parents force kids not lure kids into their religious views which then taints their learning process.

it might be fair but unrealistic to consider it child abuse if you force your kid into religion prior to them being 18, but maybe a more rational approach would be to wait till they become teens. teens aren't the brightest in the world (actually at that age even the smartest teen is a moron in the world), but they do have enough info to make decisions on who they are and who they want to be even if it may or may not change later on.

We say the sooner a child can be brought to life in Jesus Christ the better.

No. But here's the reality of it; it's inescapable. Total "neutralism" is impossible, because even the neutralism philosophy itself that you are advocating is its own belief system that you would be raising your kids under. The way I see it is that no matter what, kids are going to be raised under something, so the parents of the child might as well decide what.

The real question is, "Who decides what is and is not morally correct?"

It's all a matter of perception.

Say, in the U.S., eating a dog is nasty and disgusting, while in China dogs are a common food.

You might say eating pets is wrong, but many people keep chickens and pigs as pets but that doesn't stop them from eating those animals.

Like I said, it's a matter of perception.

you have a very common sense argument, unfortunatley kids are shaped by parents beliefs