Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.08 10/3/83; site psuvax1.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!harpo!whuxle!akgua!psuvax1!simon From: simon@psuvax1.UUCP (Janos Simon) Newsgroups: net.singles,net.kids Subject: Re: Religious Brainwashing of Children Message-ID: <1114@psuvax1.UUCP> Date: Tue, 31-Jul-84 10:12:15 EDT Article-I.D.: psuvax1.1114 Posted: Tue Jul 31 10:12:15 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 5-Aug-84 07:54:40 EDT References: <2035@hplabsc.UUCP>, <8022@umcp-cs.UUCP> <181@sunybcs.UUCP> Organization: Pennsylvania State Univ. Lines: 12 [] Can't resist challenging that one: (it's easier to explain to children that something is wrong because god doesn't like it than saying it's wrong because other people don't like it). 1)Assuming (as the original submitter did) that you don't personally believe it, you'd be telling the kid a lie. 2)Children tend to believe the concrete, and are quite aware of peer and parental pressure. A statement that Mom (or dad, or whoever - a real person, or even a well defined imaginary one) doesn't like it is a lot more direct (and effective) than mking up an abstract entity. js