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From: simon@psuvax1.UUCP (Janos Simon)
Newsgroups: net.singles,net.kids
Subject: Re: Religious Brainwashing of Children
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Date: Tue, 31-Jul-84 10:12:15 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jul 31 10:12:15 1984
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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