Brainwashing Children
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I was recently reminded while watching The Daily Show how incorrectly I have been raising my children. A tongue-in-cheek look at Help! Mom! There Are Liberals Under My Bed! by Katharine DeBrecht was pulled out again. I know, this book is over two years old, but that does not mean that the value of this book has diminished.
The value of this book is simple. It teaches kids to think the way the parent wants them to think. How are they going to generate more Ann Coulters if the kids are raised to think for themselves? That is the point of DeBrecht’s book, it is the point of all Coulter’s books, and it is the point of dragging children to church from day one of their sponge-like brains. They all have one purpose: Intolerance.
My mother-in-law was too late with my wife. Unable to put the final nail in her child’s mind coffin, her daughter married me and began asking philosophical questions that we explored together. Shortly after we were married all those years ago, I noticed a book next to her side of the bed. I’ve searched for this title today, and I cannot find it. If anybody can help me, I’d sure appreciate it. The title was something like “How To Live With An Atheist.” Now this was a lot of years ago and I was very young. Still trying to find my identity, I would not have claimed anything more than simply agnostic. I still had years of reading and research to do. There are no more questions for me to ask 15 years later. I am arrogant and proud of my atheism.
So my mother-in-law was unable to ultimately influence her daughter. She now tries to invite my daughters to church with her. I have said they are too young. There’s an age that I have in my mind for when I will let them see the church world. I have, though, brought home several books and read them to my daughters. These books cover all the major religions. I allow them to compare and contrast on their own. I allow them the opportunity to understand that there is more to the world than what’s readily available at the corner church. I offer them high gain questions like, “What right do we have to say that one philosophy is better or worse than another?”
Yes, they have political questions. As I watch programs that discuss the state of the country and world, they will sit down and begin asking questions. They approach me about discussion they had at school that day regarding current events or history. This is a tough one for me. I try to answer without sounding like I lean to one side or another. Impossible, but I do try and give both sides of an argument.
My point? I could have influenced my children much more than I have. Maybe it’s getting too late. They are getting old enough to rebel and start thinking for themselves. If I have done anything right, they will continue to understand the value of tolerance. I could have soaked their tiny little sponges with anti-Christian information. I could have created a Rush Limbaugh dart board. I could have filled their heads with so much ammunition against the fundamental religious world, but I haven’t.
Of course Christians must start teaching their children young. If given a choice at the age of 18 with no prior knowledge, most devout Christians may never accept Jesus Christ as their lord and savior. Their sponges would have become to hard by then. Less willing.
I dare anybody to give it a shot. Don’t take your kids to church until 18. Hand them a Bible on their birthday and take them to church. Values are not the sole property of Christians. Raise the children with values, but don’t introduce them to religion or afterlife or sin or praying or whatever else. Do you think that the kids, when introduced at a proper adult age, would still accept the doctrines?
Hitler got them when they were young. Al-Qaeda gets them when they’re young. Anybody who is trying to create an army of people with similar attitudes teaches them when they are young. Trains them. Little soldiers with no chance to make up their own minds.
You may argue that I am no different. That my children are learning my ways as much as anybody that I’ve highlighted here. I hope not. I really hope that I’ve opened their minds and left room in their sponges to explore many options.
Part of me is afraid that I’ve left too much to them. In 10 years, they could come home and break my heart by claiming the three C’s. I don’t think I could handle it if they told me one day, “Dad, I’m a Christian Conservative that listens to Country.”
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I was recently reminded while watching The Daily Show how incorrectly I have been raising my children. A tongue-in-cheek look at Help! Mom! There Are Liberals Under My Bed! by Katharine DeBrecht was pulled out again. I know, this book is over two years old, but that does not mean that the value of this book has diminished.
The value of this book is simple. It teaches kids to think the way the parent wants them to think. How are they going to generate more Ann Coulters if the kids are raised to think for themselves? That is the point of DeBrecht’s book, it is the point of all Coulter’s books, and it is the point of dragging children to church from day one of their sponge-like brains. They all have one purpose: Intolerance.
My mother-in-law was too late with my wife. Unable to put the final nail in her child’s mind coffin, her daughter married me and began asking philosophical questions that we explored together. Shortly after we were married all those years ago, I noticed a book next to her side of the bed. I’ve searched for this title today, and I cannot find it. If anybody can help me, I’d sure appreciate it. The title was something like “How To Live With An Atheist.” Now this was a lot of years ago and I was very young. Still trying to find my identity, I would not have claimed anything more than simply agnostic. I still had years of reading and research to do. There are no more questions for me to ask 15 years later. I am arrogant and proud of my atheism.
So my mother-in-law was unable to ultimately influence her daughter. She now tries to invite my daughters to church with her. I have said they are too young. There’s an age that I have in my mind for when I will let them see the church world. I have, though, brought home several books and read them to my daughters. These books cover all the major religions. I allow them to compare and contrast on their own. I allow them the opportunity to understand that there is more to the world than what’s readily available at the corner church. I offer them high gain questions like, “What right do we have to say that one philosophy is better or worse than another?”
Yes, they have political questions. As I watch programs that discuss the state of the country and world, they will sit down and begin asking questions. They approach me about discussion they had at school that day regarding current events or history. This is a tough one for me. I try to answer without sounding like I lean to one side or another. Impossible, but I do try and give both sides of an argument.
My point? I could have influenced my children much more than I have. Maybe it’s getting too late. They are getting old enough to rebel and start thinking for themselves. If I have done anything right, they will continue to understand the value of tolerance. I could have soaked their tiny little sponges with anti-Christian information. I could have created a Rush Limbaugh dart board. I could have filled their heads with so much ammunition against the fundamental religious world, but I haven’t.
Of course Christians must start teaching their children young. If given a choice at the age of 18 with no prior knowledge, most devout Christians may never accept Jesus Christ as their lord and savior. Their sponges would have become to hard by then. Less willing.
I dare anybody to give it a shot. Don’t take your kids to church until 18. Hand them a Bible on their birthday and take them to church. Values are not the sole property of Christians. Raise the children with values, but don’t introduce them to religion or afterlife or sin or praying or whatever else. Do you think that the kids, when introduced at a proper adult age, would still accept the doctrines?
Hitler got them when they were young. Al-Qaeda gets them when they’re young. Anybody who is trying to create an army of people with similar attitudes teaches them when they are young. Trains them. Little soldiers with no chance to make up their own minds.
You may argue that I am no different. That my children are learning my ways as much as anybody that I’ve highlighted here. I hope not. I really hope that I’ve opened their minds and left room in their sponges to explore many options.
Part of me is afraid that I’ve left too much to them. In 10 years, they could come home and break my heart by claiming the three C’s. I don’t think I could handle it if they told me one day, “Dad, I’m a Christian Conservative that listens to Country.”
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